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Russians Mull Sending Cultural Tourist, South African To ISS
By Interfax
posted: 08:01 am ET
11 June 2001
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MOSCOW (Interfax) - Russian Culture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi has requested that the Russian State Research Institute of Medical and Biological Problems consider a representative from his Ministry as a candidate for flying to the International Space StatMOSCOW (Interfax) - Russian Culture Minister Mikhail Shvydkoi has requested that the Russian State Research Institute of Medical and Biological Problems consider a representative from his Ministry as a candidate for flying to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Russian crew, director of the institute and member of the Russian Academy of Science and the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Anatoly Grigoryev has told Interfax. He refrained from giving the name and post of this person. Since Russia organized the flight of the U.S. financier Dennis Tito to the ISS, the institute has started receiving numerous applications via the Russian Aerospace Agency (Rosaviakosmos) and the space rocket corporation Energiya from both Russian and foreign citizens wishing to obtain a medical certificate for a space flight, Grigoryev said. In particular, a South African citizen has already passed medical selection and received access to special training at the Gagarin cosmonaut training center, the director said. "This is a physically fit and very interesting person, who has his own interesting ideas concerning the flight program," he said.
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