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Would-Be Millionaut Sues Space Adventures to Get Back Millions

By Doug Messier
Parabolic Arc
September 25, 2008
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Wannabe Space Tourist Wants $21 Million Back Over Scuttled Mission
Wired

“The Japanese internet tycoon who paid $21 million to become the first space tourist to walk outside the International Space Station wants his money back.

In a lawsuit, Daisuke Enomoto, 37, claims that Space Adventures, the private firm with connections to the Russian Federal Space Agency, ‘deceptively and fraudulently’ induced him to pay $21 million for a 10-day orbital sojourn that never materialized.”

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