Daisuke Enomoto
Daisuke Enomoto | |
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 Enomoto in 2006 | |
| Born | April 22, 1971(age53) Matsudo,Japan |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Space career | |
| Spaceflight participantCandidate | |
| Selection | 2005 |
| Missions | None |
Daisuke Enomoto(Giả bổn đại phụ,Enomoto Daisuke,born April 22, 1971, nicknamedDice-K)is a Japanese businessman and formerlivedoorexecutive who hoped to become the fourthspace tourist.He had trained atStar City, Moscowin Russia to fly with two members ofExpedition 14on boardSoyuz TMA-9,which was launched on September 18, 2006.
However, on August 21, 2006, a Russian Federal Space Agency spokesman announced that Enomoto was "deemed not ready to fly for exclusively medical reasons", although he hinted that Enomoto might recover and join a later mission. His replacement on this particular flight wasIranian-AmericanbusinesswomanAnousheh Ansari.
Enomoto lodged alawsuitagainst Virginia-basedSpace Adventuresin which he hoped to reclaim the $21 million he paid the company over a two-year span.[1]During the lawsuit,[2]it was revealed that the "medical reason" was chronickidney stones.[3]Space Adventures claims it advised Enomoto to treat the kidney stones aggressively and when he did not, they had to disqualify him from spaceflight. Enomoto claims that he was misled about the kidney stones issue,[2]and that the real reason for his disqualification was his refusal to provide additional funds to Space Adventures.[3]
Enomoto would have been the firstself-fundedspace touristfrom Japan and Asia (journalistToyohiro Akiyamaflew onSoyuz TM-11in 1990, and could be regarded as the first space business traveller). Enomoto's flight would have taken him to theInternational Space Station(ISS) after lifting off from theBaikonur Cosmodromein Kazakhstan, the world's oldestspaceport.
Enomoto made international news when it was revealed that he intended to go into space wearing acostumeakin to that ofChar Aznable,a character from theanimeseriesMobile Suit Gundam.[4][5]His planned experiment was to put together one or moreGundam modelsinzero gravity.[4]
References
[edit]- ^Klotz, Irene (2008-11-26)."Grounded space tourist wants $21 million refund".Yahoo News.Archived fromthe originalon September 29, 2008.
- ^abCacheris."Enomoto v. Space Adventures".
- ^abBarakat, Matthew (2008-09-21)."Would-be Japanese space tourist wants $21M back".Archived fromthe originalon December 21, 2008.
- ^abKravets, David (2008-09-24)."Wannabe Space Tourist Wants $21 Million Back Over Scuttled Mission".Wired News.Archived fromthe originalon 2008-10-21.Retrieved2008-10-28.
- ^Reiss, Spencer (October 2008)."Space Get Up".Wired.
External links
[edit]- Spacefacts biography of Daisuke Enomoto
- Biography of Daisuke Enomotoon hisown web site
- Space Adventures Announces Next Private Space Explorer
- Medical defeats 4th space tourist
- The Space Tourist Who Wasn't
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