Space Adventures Announces Japanese Entrepreneur as Next Private Space Explorer

Space Adventures Announces Japanese Entrepreneur as Next Private Space
Explorer

First commercial spaceflight participant from Asia/Japan


November 3, 2005

Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company,
announced today that Hong Kong resident and Japanese entrepreneur Daisuke
Enomoto (Dice-K) will be the next private space explorer candidate. The
company which organized the spaceflights to the International Space Station
for the world's first private explorers Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth and
Greg Olsen, disclosed that Dice-K's expedition is currently planned for
October 2006.

In conjunction with the Federal Space Agency and the Rocket Space
Corporation Energia, Space Adventures continues its commitment to opening
the final frontier for private citizens. Dice-K has already begun cosmonaut
training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.

Dice-K, founder of DICE-K.com commented, "I am proud to be the first private
citizen from Japan to begin training for an orbital spaceflight. I hope that
by my interest in space exploration many others will be encouraged to learn
more about the mysteries of the black sky. For the past 30 years, I have
dreamt of seeing our Mother Earth from space."
"We are excited to announce that Dice-K will be the next private space
explorer to visit the International Space Station," said Eric Anderson,
president and CEO, Space Adventures. "It will be another proud moment at his
launch, not only for Space Adventures, but for Japan as a country. We
encourage people from all around the world to explore the final frontier. We
congratulate Dice-K and wish him well in his training."

Dice-K is a 34 year-old, Japanese national that has been living and working
in the Pacific Rim (USA, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan) for the last 15
years. He was the Executive Vice President, Chief Strategic Officer and
member of the Board of Livedoor, a publicly traded TSE (Tokyo Stock
Exchange:4753) company in the IT industry. During his tenure with Livedoor,
the company experienced exponential growth with the market capitalization
growing from $150 million (USD), when Dice-K joined to approximately $1.5
billion (USD). The current market capitalization of Livedoor is
approximately $5 billion (USD). Currently, he is an independent investor
providing investment and strategic business advisory services for select
companies such as Net Village OSE (Osaka Stock Exchange:2323) company in
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