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July 1, 2003Washington, D.C.
US Airways Pledges to Donate 3.2 Million Dividend Miles to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®
Space Adventures® announced today that US Airways, the nation's seventh-largest airline, will donate one Dividend Mile to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital for each mile traveled by the next space tourist who is a member of the Dividend Miles program. Calculating the distance from Earth to space and the distance traveled aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the donation would be equivalent to approximately 3.2 million frequent flyer miles."Space Adventures takes the Dividend Miles program to new heights," said Mike Isom, managing director of marketing programs, US Airways. "We are pleased to work with Space Adventures on this exciting new mission, and support a worthy cause in doing so."
Space Adventures, the world's leading space experiences company, recently announced its plans to launch a Russian Soyuz spacecraft dedicated solely for commercial space tourism. Two private citizens will be piloted to the ISS in early 2005 by a professional Russian cosmonaut. The mission, Space Adventures-1, continues the company's record of opening the space frontier to explorers other than government astronauts and cosmonauts. Space Adventures launched the world's first two privately-funded space explorers, California businessman Dennis Tito in 2001, and South African Mark Shuttleworth in 2002.
"US Airways and Space Adventures have provided a wonderful, unique opportunity to increase the awareness of childhood cancer and the research being performed at St. Jude," said Richard C. Shadyac, national executive director, ALSAC/St. Jude, the hospital's fund-raising arm. "US Airways' generous donation of Dividend Miles will help us to continue our mission of treating children regardless of their family's ability to pay and will benefit many children from around the world."
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is internationally recognized for its pioneering work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Since opening in 1962, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has treated more than 19,000 children from all 50 states and 60 foreign countries. St. Jude is the largest childhood cancer research center in the world in terms of the number of patients enrolled on research protocols and successfully treated. The hospital has developed protocols that have brought survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent to better than 70 percent overall. Founded by late entertainer Danny Thomas and based in Memphis, Tennessee, St. Jude freely shares its discoveries with scientific and medical communities around the world. No family ever pays for treatments not covered by insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to pay. St Jude is financially supported by ALSAC, its fundraising organization. For more information, please visit www.stjude.org.
US Airways is the nation's seventh-largest airline, serving nearly 200 destinations in the U.S., Canada, Latin America, Europe and the Caribbean. Along with US Airways Shuttle and the US Airways Express partner carriers, US Airways operates over 3,300 flights per day. For more information on US Airways flight schedules and fares, contact US Airways at www.usairways.com, or call US Airways Reservations at 1-800-428-4322.
In addition to orbital flights to the ISS, Space Adventures, the world's leading space flight experiences and space tourism company, offers a wide range of programs, from zero-gravity and Edge of Space flights, cosmonaut training and space flight qualification programs, to reservations on future sub-orbital spacecraft. Headquartered in Arlington, VA, with an office in Moscow, Russia, Space Adventures is the only company to have successfully launched private individuals to the International Space Station. The company's advisory board comprises Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin; shuttle astronauts Kathy Thornton, Robert (Hoot) Gibson, Charles Walker, Norm Thagard, Sam Durrance and Byron Lichtenberg; and Skylab astronaut Owen Garriott.
