Space Adventures®, Ltd., the world’s leading space experiences company, announced today that American technology entrepreneur Gregory Olsen, Ph.D. has resumed spaceflight training at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.
Last year, several weeks into his cosmonaut training program, Dr. Olsen underwent a routine medical evaluation in which a health condition was detected that prohibited him from continuing his training at that time. The condition has since been remedied, and, after a recent re-evaluation, Dr. Olsen has received clearance to resume cosmonaut training in preparation for an upcoming Soyuz flight to the International Space Station.
No further information is available.
Space Adventures, the only company which organized the spaceflights for the world’s first private space explorers, American businessman Dennis Tito and the “First African in Space” Mark Shuttleworth, is headquartered in Arlington, Va. with offices in Moscow and Tokyo. It offers a variety of programs such as Zero-Gravity and MiG flights, cosmonaut training, spaceflight qualification programs and reservations on future suborbital spacecrafts. The company’s advisory board comprises Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, shuttle astronauts Sam Durrance, Robert (Hoot) Gibson, Byron Lichtenberg, Norm Thagard, Kathy Thornton, Pierre Thuot, Charles Walker and Skylab astronaut Owen Garriott.
Stacey Tearne
Space Adventures
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