But Intrepid Travel will follow the same route with "Shackleton Epic," a 56-day journey scheduled for early 2013 organized with Alexandra Shackleton, the explorer's granddaughter.
Normally, it takes two days for a spacecraft to rendezvous and dock with the station, but the service module's journey is scheduled to take two weeks.
A separate project to fly an aircraft around the world on solar power is also under way; the Solar Impulse, in development since 2005, has made several flights already, and an around-the-world journey is scheduled for 2014.
"To have something that comes directly from Orson Welles, items that he used himself in structuring the movie, is incredible," said Harlan Lebo, whose book Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey is scheduled for release in 2016.
Our ill-fated journey was scheduled to begin at 6 05 pm in the evening.
The entire journey was scheduled to take four days, involving a European train leg, a crossing by the passengers on a ferry and an English train leg.
I'd already warned those boarding the bus that there would be no toilet stops, and the journey was scheduled to take seven hours.
In 2006 people took just over 2 billion journeys on scheduled airlines worldwide, 4% up on the year before, according to the International Civil Aviation Organisation.
In March 2005, Mrs. Holmstead and her husband — who left his job as assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Air and Radiation just before the journey — devised a schedule.
Told that a Russian cosmonaut said he would prefer her presence to that of most other space tourists, the model Cindy Crawford said in June that she would consider making the journey if her schedule permitted.
