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Aspiring Space Tourist Passes Medical Exam for Soyuz Flight
By SPACE.com Staff
posted: 02:20 pm ET
30 August 2001
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Three foreign candidates for a commercial flight to the International Space Station have successfully undergone medical examination Wednesday in the Star Town not far from MoscowThree aspiring space travelers training with the Russians have passed their medical exams required for commercial trips aboard Soyuz capsules to the International Space Station, it was reported Thursday. South African Mark Shuttleworth, 28, and two astronauts from the European Space Agency are set to fly aboard to the station in 2002, according to Russian Information Agency Novosti. The astronauts are Italian Roberto Vittori, 37, and Frank De Winne, 40, from Belgium. All have been preparing for spaceflight at the Russian Space Agency's Star City complex outside Moscow, where cosmonauts receive their training. Vittori is scheduled for an April flight. The flight dates for the other two will be decided later, the Cosmonauts' Training Center outside Moscow told RIA Novosti. In October, French astronaut Claudie Andre-Deshays will travel along with two Russian cosmonauts on a commercial flight to the station. She currently is finishing her pre-flight training. Andre-Deshays became the first Frenchwoman to go into space when she flew on Mir in August 1996. She is also the first female astronaut to qualify as a "Soyuz Return Commander," the person in charge of a three-person Russian capsule on the homeward trip from outer space.
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