Monday, August 21, 2006

A Heart-breaking End of a Dream Despite Offering $20 billion

By: Biplob Kishore Deb

Making a trip to the space station is not only a dream but also is more than that any people and could you imagine that what would you do after being failed in the medical test in spite of having every quality including the required $20 billion. Japanese businessman, Daisuke Enomoto is that person who could not get the key to visit another world which is the dream of many people. He would be the fourth and first Asian tourist of the space station. I have seen two articles regarding this matter in two different sites.

I ma quoting from one of the articles:

“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 Russian space agency official said MondaY”.

He was supposed to join to the trip which will be started on September 14. On this regard another article reported that:

"On August 21, the Main Medical Commission made the decision that Daisuke Enomoto was medically unfit to fly to space," the Russian agency said on its Web site. "A new crew for the 14th ISS mission will be determined in the next few days."

There are some backup crews who can be replaced in the place of Daisuke Enomoto. I feel sympathetic for this man.
Sources:
Japanese space tourist grounded after he fails medical
Russian Official: No Dice on Space Flight for Japanese Businessman

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