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Beyond Ombudsmanship: Jilted Space Tourist Sues for $21 Million
September 27, 2008 at 12:16 PM |
by Victor Ozols
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This one's worth following because it could just as easily have happened to you or me. A 37-year-old Japanese businessman named Daisuke Enomoto thought he had booked the vacation of a lifetime, a 10-day visit to the International Space Station in September, 2006. Reuters points out that Enomoto paid $21 million to Virginia-based Space Adventures to make the arrangements, completed his training, and was all set to blast off in a Russian Soyuz capsule when he was bumped from the mission due to health reasons.
