3:14pm UK, Monday December 10, 2001

Contestants in the US will soon be offered the chance to win the ultimate gameshow prize - a trip into space.

Production company Image World Media is in talks with a US television network to make a 13-part gameshow.

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The top prize is the chance to take part in a Russian space mission.

Five teams will fight it out to get to the final of the Survivor-style show which will be filmed at famous sites around the world, including Stonehenge, the pyramids at Giza and the Nazca plains in Peru.

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The members of the winning team will then train with Russian cosmonauts as they compete against each other for the trip to space in the final round of the 13-part series.

The winning contestant will go aboard the Russian rocket with the pilot and another professional cosmonaut.

The prize could even include time on the International Space Station if NASA allows the winner on board.