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Alternate tourist selected - MT
MOSCOW TIMES
Tuesday, August 22, 2006. Issue 3480. Page 2. Japanese Man Fails Space Test Combined Reports A Japanese businessman seeking to become the world's fourth space tourist has failed a medical test and cannot fly to the international space station next month, a space official said Monday. Daisuke "Dice-K" Enomoto, 34, was to be launched in a Soyuz vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the next space station crew on Sept. 14. "I cannot give you the precise details of the medical checks, but it looks like Iranian-born U.S. businesswoman Anousheh Ansari will fly instead of him," Federal Space Agency spokesman Igor Panarin said. "I believe the state commission will approve Ansari's flight by the end of this week," Panarin said. Ansari would be the world's fourth space tourist and would fly with U.S. commander Miguel Lopez-Alegria and Russian flight engineer Mikhail Tyurin. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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