Anousheh Ansari’s Space Flight Cost Enomoto $21 Million |
| Published: September 25, 2008, 5:26 pm |
| Tags: across the nation, anousheh ansari, daisuke enomoto, international space station, lawsuit, photos, pictures, space adventures, space traveler |
|
Anousheh Ansari is a wealthy business woman who funded her own trip to the International Space Station for a ten day adventure in September 2006. The Persian, who lives in Dallas, reportedly paid $20 million for the opportunity. Ansari left one very disgruntled Japanese businessman in her wake when she blasted off into space. It seems Daisuke Enomoto, 37, had completed training in Russia and planned to fly to the station aboard the Russian Soyuz capsule but was pulled from the three member crew a month before liftoff because he was ruled medically unfit due to kidney stones. Enomoto had plunked down $21 million to Space Adventures in order to make the trip and participate in a spacewalk. He says he had passed multiple medical exams by panels of medical personnel, one such screening only days before they grounded him. The issue of the kidney stones had been discussed at length and had not been a concern previously. He believes that he was displaced to make room for Ansari, [ Full article ] |
 Blog link
|
No Comments...