The 4th space traveler will fly in September

A Japanese businessman, Daisuke "Dice-K" Enomoto (34) will become the 4th space tourist when flying to the international space station in September this year.

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Daisuke "Dice-K" Enomoto during a visit to Russia, behind it is a Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin

Mr. Enomoto will fly into space with the Russian Soyuz from the Kazakhstan airport and the crew of the American commander Miguel Lopez-Alegria and the Russian space engineer Mikhail Tyurin.

Enomoto 'Passenger' will return to Earth after spending 10 days on the space station also with the Soyuz train with the crew working in space from before as Russian commander Pavel Vinogradov and human space engineer American Jeff Williams.

Previously, three space tourists Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth and Greg Olsen went through space travel at a cost of at least $ 20 million.

Currently, software billionaire Charles Simonyi has registered to become the fifth space tourist to visit the space station in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of about 350 km (220 miles). The time of this trip has not been determined.

Tran Nam