Space Adventures announced today that Daisuke “Dice-K” Enomoto has been officially confirmed as a member of the Soyuz TMA-9 crew that will fly to the ISS in September, alongside Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria. Enomoto had, of course, been in training for this flight for months. Anousheh Ansari was also named to the backup crew should Enomoto not be able to fly for some reason; it’s assumed that eventually she, too, will fly to the ISS, although it’s not clear when.
Is this for the standard $20 million? I didn’t see the price in the article.
Chance,
Space Adventures does not disclose the fees its customers pay for ISS flights, but there’s been no evidence that Enomoto either paid a premium over or got a discount off of the de facto “standard” price of $20 million.