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Russia, NASA Delay Tito Talks Until Friday
By Interfax
posted: 03:11 pm ET
17 April 2001
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tito_talks_delay_010417 MOSCOW (Interfax) -- Both the Russian and U.S. space agencies have put off until Friday a debate on the planned April 28 flight by would-be U.S. space tourist Dennis Tito to the International Space Station (ISS). The heads of NASA and the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, Daniel Goldin and Yuri Koptev, planned to discuss the matter by telephone on Tuesday. But they put the conversation off until Friday, Koptev spokesman Sergei Gorbunov told Interfax. Meanwhile, Tito is training according to schedule, the Russian agency's press service said. He and two Russian cosmonauts are set to fly to the ISS aboard a Soyuz TM spacecraft, to be launched into orbit by a Soyuz U booster from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russian space experts say tourist flights to the space station are inevitable and that all the countries involved in the ISS project should have a single official position on them. All the ISS nations have had previous discussions on the issue. On Tuesday, Tito, crew commander Talgat Musabayev and flight engineer Yuri Baturin were at Baikonur training onboard the ship that will take them to the ISS. The three are to return to Star City near Moscow on Wednesday for their final preparation period, which includes medical tests and work on a scientific research plan.They will return to Baikonur on April 23.
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