Woman leads space passenger list
MOSCOW - A Japanese space tourist who had hoped to blast off on board a Russian rocket next month was deemed unfit for the trip on Monday, a Russian space official said, and an Iranian-American woman entrepreneur was most likely to replace him.
Japanese entrepreneur Daisuke Enomoto had been due to lift off in a Soyuz capsule from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppes to the international space station on Sept. 14. But a medical commission found he was unfit for the 10-day journey.
"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," Igor Panarin, spokesman for the Russian Space Agency, told Reuters. "I believe the state (spaceflight) commission will approve Ansari's flight by the end of this week."
MOSCOW - A Japanese space tourist who had hoped to blast off on board a Russian rocket next month was deemed unfit for the trip on Monday, a Russian space official said, and an Iranian-American woman entrepreneur was most likely to replace him.
Japanese entrepreneur Daisuke Enomoto had been due to lift off in a Soyuz capsule from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppes to the international space station on Sept. 14. But a medical commission found he was unfit for the 10-day journey.
"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," Igor Panarin, spokesman for the Russian Space Agency, told Reuters. "I believe the state (spaceflight) commission will approve Ansari's flight by the end of this week."














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