Thursday, August 03, 2006
JAPAN'S first space tourist, Daisuke Enomoto, would blast off in a Russian spaceship headed for the International Space Station (ISS) on September 14, the Russian space group Roskosmos said today.
"The Japanese tourist is due to go into space on September 14. He is continuing his training at Star City (near Moscow)," said spokesman Igor Panarine.
:Last month, Daisuke Enomoto took a sea and land survival course in Sebastopol (Ukraine). Now he is training on a simulator of the ISS. And he is working at it with considerable determination," the spokesman said.
The first Japanese space tourist is due to take off in a Soyuz capsule from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, escorted by a Russian cosmonaut, Mikhail Tiurin, and a NASA astronaut, Michael Lopez-Algeria.
Mr. Enomoto, 35, who made his luck in the Internet business, would pay nearly $US20 million ($26.18 million) to spend about 10 days in space.
He would become the world's fourth space tourist.
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