Daisuke Enomoto (榎本大輔 Enomoto Daisuke, born April 22, 1971, nicknamed Dice-K) is a Japanese businessman and former Livedoor executive who is in line to become the fifthspace tourist. He is currently in training at Star City, Moscow in Russia to fly on board Soyuz TMA-9, currently scheduled for September 14, 2006. April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... Matsudo (松戸市; -shi) is a city located in Chiba, Japan. ... A businessperson (sometimes businessman, male; or businesswoman, female) is a generic term for a wide range of people engaged in profit-oriented enterprises, generally the management of a company. ... Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of space travel by individuals for the purpose of personal pleasure. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Crew Will launch ISS Expedition 14 crew: Michael Lopez-Alegria (4) Commander - U.S.A. Mikhail Tyurin (2) Flight Engineer - Russia Daisuke Enomoto (1) Tourist - Japan Will land ISS Expedition 14 crew: Michael Lopez-Alegria (4) Commander - U.S.A. Mikhail Tyurin (2) Flight Engineer - Russia Sunita Williams (1) Flight... April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... The correct title of this article is livedoor. ... Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of space travel by individuals for the purpose of personal pleasure. ... Star City (Звездный) is a small town outside Moscow where cosmonauts are trained for spacetravel at the Gagarin Cosmonauts Training Centre (GCTC). ... Crew Will launch ISS Expedition 14 crew: Michael Lopez-Alegria (4) Commander - U.S.A. Mikhail Tyurin (2) Flight Engineer - Russia Daisuke Enomoto (1) Tourist - Japan Will land ISS Expedition 14 crew: Michael Lopez-Alegria (4) Commander - U.S.A. Mikhail Tyurin (2) Flight Engineer - Russia Sunita Williams (1) Flight... September 14 is the 257th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (258th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Enomoto will be the first self-funded space tourist from Japan and Asia (journalist Toyohiro Akiyama flew on Soyuz TM-11 in 1990, and could be regarded as Japan's first space tourist). Enomoto's flight will take him to the International Space Station (ISS) after lifting off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the worlds oldest spaceport. Space tourism is the recent phenomenon of space travel by individuals for the purpose of personal pleasure. ... Toyohiro Akiyama (秋山豊寛 Akiyama Toyohiro) (born July 22, 1942) is a Japanese TV journalist and cosmonaut. ... Crew Launched: Viktor Afanasyev (1) Musa Manarov (2) Toyohiro Akiyama (1), Reporter-Japan Landed: Viktor Afanasyev (1) Musa Manarov (2) Helen Sharman (1), U.K. Mission Parameters Mass: 7150 kg Perigee: 367 km Apogee: 400 km Inclination: 51. ... This article is about the year. ... International Space Station insignia ISS Statistics Crew: 2 As of March 5, 2006 Perigee: 352. ... The Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakh: Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, Bayqoñır ğarış aylağı; Russian: Космодром Байконур, Kosmodrom Baykonur), also called Tyuratam, is the worlds oldest and largest working space launch facility. ... A spaceport is a site for launching spacecraft, by analogy with airport for aircraft. ...

Enomoto made international news when it was revealed that he intends to go into space wearing a costume of Char Aznable, a character from the anime series Gundam. Teens in Harajuku, Tokyo cosplay as Mana, Yu~Ki and Kozi of Malice Mizer. ... Char Aznable, as appeared in Mobile Suit Gundam: Chars Counterattack Char Aznable (シャア・アズナブル) is a fictional character, and once of the main antagonists from the anime series Mobile Suit Gundam and its sequels, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Chars Counterattack, voiced by Shuichi Ikeda (Japanese), Michael Kopsa (English dub... // A scene from Cowboy Bebop (1998) Anime ) is a medium of animation originating in Japan, with distinctive character and background aesthetics that visually set it apart from other forms of animation. ... Gundam (ガンダム) is one of the longest running series of anime featuring giant robots. ...

External links

• Spacefacts biography of Daisuke Enomoto
• Biography of Daisuke Enomoto on his own web site
• Space Adventures Announces Next Private Space Explorer