Another Space Tourist Ready to Fly
South African Internet billionaire Mark Shuttleworth, 27, is training for a space trip to the International Space Station, according to a Russian news agency. Shuttleworth is undergoing medical tests at Russia?s space city of Zvezdny (which means Star City), the main Russian cosmonaut-training center. The announcement was made two days after Rosaviakosmos Yury Koptev, the head of Russia?s space agency, announced that no space tourists would be launched to the ISS until 2006.
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