A US federal judge is allowing a Japanese millionaire to go ahead with his lawsuit against a Virginia company he says unfairly denied him a ride into outer space
A US federal judge is allowing a Japanese millionaire to go ahead with his lawsuit against a Virginia company he says unfairly denied him a ride into outer space.
Daisuke Enomoto had planned to be the world's fourth "space tourist". He paid $21 million to Space Adventures, the company known for brokering such deals with the Russian space agency.
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Space Adventures, which is based in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC, says Enomoto was medically disqualified in 2006 because of kidney stones. But Enomoto says the kidney stones were a pretext to boot him off the mission, because he refused demands from Space Adventures for more money.
While the judge is allowing the case to proceed, he did toss out some of Enomoto's claims.