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http://www.spacedaily.com/2005/05101108 ... ihabe.html


Japanese whiz aims for space -- in cartoon uniform
TOKYO (AFP) Oct 11, 2005

A Japanese Internet whiz is tipped to become the world's fourth space tourist -- and he wants to orbit the earth dressed as an ace pilot from a hit Japanese animation series.

The candidate for the 20-million-dollar trip is Japanese investor Daisuke Enomoto, a 34-year-old former board director of the Livedoor Internet firm headed by flamboyant entrepreneur Takafumi Horie, local media said.

Enomoto has already passed medical checks and started flight training for a trip in late 2006, Jiji Press news agency reported.

Enomoto said in January that he was likely to be the first Japanese to make a paid space trip.

"I'm planning to do something amusing," he wrote then on his website.

If he gets Russian approval, Enomoto said he wanted to dress up on the trip as "Char Aznable", a character in the popular "Gundam" hero robot series of animation whose name is inspired by French singer Charles Aznavour.

Enomoto describes himself as a "Gundam otaku (geek)".

The third civilian to pay for a space flight, US millionaire businessman Greg Olsen, returned to Earth on Tuesday in the Soyuz space capsule.

The 60-year-old American paid Space Adventures 20 million dollars for a seat aboard the capsule and eight days of gazing down at the Earth from the International Space Station, 230 miles (370 kilometers) up.

He was preceded into space by two other millionaire tourists, American Dennis Tito in 2001 and South African Mark Shuttleworth the following year.



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I am at a loss for words.
 
I've got a new hero; that guy = total winner at life :lol:
 
People like that should not be allowed that sort of money.

Imagine if he had spent that money on the Third World! He could own it!

Or more reasonably he could have helped a lot of people.
 
I have to say I wouldn't be all that thrilled. I don't get the fixaction with space currently, I could never spacewalk, and being in a shuttle would be bad enough. I'd be terrified, all that vacuum, something going wrong for too easily. And for what? 0g and nice few of the Earth? Not worth it.

I'll wait a decade or three, maybe a few centuries before I'm content to go into space. Not now on a Russian shuttle that was built during the cold war.
 
In all honesty, there in lies the problem with space exploration. People today are not willing to take the chances of moving forward. Many opinions I encounter is that space is not worth our time or is too dangerous at the moment.

Looking back history, these are the same problems encountered by the first pioneers of the oceans. Without their risk taking ship building technology would not have progressed as it did and the world would be a very different place.

I look at the current position of space exploration and try to imagine what could be done if people took those risks and leapt at the chance for progress. Which is one of the main reasons I am studying certain engineering aspects and trying to obtain co-ops with NASA.

I am willing to put my life on the line just for tht chance to see the world from a view a rare few get to see. I'm willing to go that distance in the name of progress.
 
:P it wont be long before commercial companys can afford to launch us into space. when they do, that'll be your problem solved :D
 
Wheras I don't see what progress it can bring. Here lies the problem: you go to space. Great. Now what?

Due to limitations on time the only thing you can do is possibly go to the moon, or hang around in one of the space stations, where I'm sure you're doing some vital research. In the vast majority of cases I'm sure a computer would serve.

I've never been inpressed by going to space now. There is a reason why the British do not have there own space program.

It costs too much for too few results.
 
Due to limitations on time the only thing you can do is possibly go to the moon, or hang around in one of the space stations, where I'm sure you're doing some vital research. In the vast majority of cases I'm sure a computer would serve.
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Well, as people attempt space exploration the techonology will improve. This will give us faster methods of travel as well as longer air, water, and food supplies. Letting computers do work is fine, but you don't get certain aspects of it a human would get. For example, which would be better for studying prolonged exposure to cosmic radiation on a human being, an unmanned satellite or an actual crewed station where the subjects it is supposed to be effecting can be monitored and tested.

Wheras I don't see what progress it can bring. Here lies the problem: you go to space. Great. Now what?
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Simple, you go farther. How far is farther? As far as you want it to go. Space is not just a single location like the Andes or the moon. It is so massive we cannot begin to comprehend it. Just getting into space is te start of the exploration. The progress comes from the technology you create in order to move farther.

It costs too much for too few results.
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You can say the same thing about medical advances and other research fields. Nothing advances at a blinding pace, it has leaps and slow points. Space exploration is a relatively new subject of research (the actual creation of spacecraft and movement in deep space), being a little over a half a century old. You need to stick with something if you want to see results.
 
Look. I'm not arguing that space travel will be a good idea one day, but we can develop the technology here on earth, without sporadicly launching ridiculously exspensive shuttles.

It should not be forgotten that manned craft are far more exspensive, less efficient, bulkier, and according to you, only serve to irradiate there occupants.
 
:) space flight has lost it's edge, it needs a new kick because at the moment it happens to be the pet project of the super rich and pocket protector toting science jockeys :P
 
What we really need is some sattelite based thermonuclear weapons and lasers.

That'll show the Red's whose boss!

Wow, I caught up with the Red Scare.

Terrible.

Becuase that's what really the space flight was about, beating the communists. And look, you guys did, you bankrupt their entire economy by competing with them over nuclear weapons and space travel.

There gone now.
 
Space travel techonolgy (just as military technology during a major war) can be (and is) applied not only to the program, but revolutionary understandings and leaps in science and technology as we know it. By the way, it's 'They're gone now.'

I'd get into it more, but I doubt it would change anything.
 
Oh? Which particular revolution has going into space brought us? And I mean astronaughts going into space, not all sattelites, I do not argue that the Hubble Telescope, Sattelite Television, Gallileo, and the planetary drones have been valuable.

However manned exploration has accomplished nothing usefull except for propoganda.
 
At the moment if you ask me, space is still too far away from being profitable.
this is why apart from risky stuff, such as metorites ect, space doesnt really matter globaly at the moment. however exploration is something we seem to be facinated with, maybe when we get our asses on mars space will be busy again.
 
I disagree. Manned spaceflights have accomplished a few things. Sure it did serve as propaganda during the Cold War, but I am pretty sure the astronauts didn't see themselves as serving as tools for their own government.

How about the triumph of the human spirit? We're showing that humans can accomplish something as long as the put their mind to it. Consider it an achievement like the first manned airplane. It goes to show man is not bound by the ground he stands on.

Also, manned spaceflights have had an impact in that we know some of the effects of space on the human body. If we had never sent anyone into space until we had the equipment for a manned spaceflight to Mars, we would have quite a few disorganized and somewhat confused astronauts.
 
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