American unfit for space flight

19:03 2004-06-23
Gregory Olsen, an American millionaire and a potential space tourist, was notified that he was medically unfit to fly to the International Space Station, the Gagarin Astronaut Training Center told RIA Novosti. The decision was made Tuesday night.

Mr. Olsen was to reach the ISS aboard Russia's Soyuz spacecraft in April 2005 as part of an experienced space crew and spend one week on the station.

He went through a theoretical course in Zvezdniy Gorodok (Star Town), in the Moscow region.

Earlier, Russian doctors from the Biological and Medical Problems Institute approved the 58-year-old businessman's training.

The rest in Pravda here: http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2004/06/23/54511.html

SpaceRef and NASA Watch have an internal memo form NASA on the same subject.