Thursday, June 08, 2006
Cape Canaveral, Florida - A Japanese businessman set to be the world's fourth space tourist would fly to the International Space Station in September, according to the business arranging the trip.
Daisuke "Dice-K" Enomoto, 34, will be launched in a Russian Soyuz automobile from Kazakhstan with the next space station crew of US commander Miguel Lopez-Algeria and Russian flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin.
Enomoto would return from his 10-day space voyage in a Soyuz with the space station's current occupants, Russian commander Pavel Vinogradov and US flight wangle Jeff Williams.
Previous guide to the space station were Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttle worth and Greg Olsen, whose trips brokered by Virginia-based Space Adventures was estimated to cost $20-million each.
Billionaire software entrepreneur Charles Simonyi has signed a agreement to be the fifth tourist to trip the space lab orbiting 355km above Earth, although a date has not been set.
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