According to a BBC article Daisuke Enomoto, the Japanese businessman who had planned to travel to the International Space Station, has failed his medical test.

According to the below press release, a Japanese entrepreneur will be heading toward the International Space Station some time in September; no word on the exact date. A woman, Anousheh Ansari, has joined the backup crew. There is also no news on if she will be traveling in her own right at a later time.

According to this CNN article, "The Federal Aviation Administration is reviewing proposals from New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas to be gateways for private space travel."

by Carol Pinchefsky

by Carol Pinchefsky

Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company, announced a science agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA), for a research program to be performed with Greg Olsen, Ph.D. who will visit the International Space Station ( ISS) next month. Under the agreement, Dr. Olsen will act as a test subject for three experiments of ESA's onboard research program.

New York – August 10, 2005 – Space Adventures, Ltd., the world’s leading space experiences company, announced today the availability of a commercial spaceflight to the far side of the moon. The company, which organized spaceflights for the world’s first private space explorers, American businessman Dennis Tito and the ‘First African in Space’ Mark Shuttleworth, disclosed the details of the mission, called DSE-Alpha, during a press conference.

Space Adventures, Ltd., the world's leading space experiences company, announced today that American technology entrepreneur Gregory Olsen, Ph.D. has been confirmed to the Soyuz TMA-7 crew which is currently planned for launch to the International Space Station ( ISS) on October 1 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Dr. Olsen will be joining the 12th Expedition Crew which will also include NASA astronaut William McArthur and cosmonaut Valery Tokarev.

Arlington, Va. – May 11, 2005 – Space Adventures, Ltd., the world’s leading space experiences company, announced today the official opening of an office in Tokyo and the appointment of Tatsuhiro Yokoyama as general manager.  Space Adventures, the only company in the world to have taken paying passengers to space, has received thousands of requests from Japan, and other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, for more information on opportunities available today for space tourism.

By G.B. Leatherwood