by Playfuls Staff |
1st April 2006
The Russian Space Agency announced this Saturday that it has signed up a contract with a new space tourist, the Japanese Daisuke Enomoto, thus entitling him to go on a trip to the International Space Station in the autumn of 2006. [more]
"We have signed the contract with Enomoto, and we are sending him to the ISS this autumn with the next crew", chief of manned space flights programs Alexei Krasnov said.
Aside from Enomoto, the RSA is also considering another tourist, namely Anoushe Ansari – an American woman of Iranian origin – who may also be the first female tourist on the ISS.
"We are considering the possibility of having Anoushe Ansari as the next space tourist, but we have not made a decision yet", Krasnov said. "She has expressed a wish to take the Russian Soyuz."
Krasnov also wanted to emphasise the fact that the term of "space tourist" is not exactly accurate from a legal point of view.
"We call such candidates members of the space flight", he said.
