# Daisuke Enomoto > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daisuke_Enomoto > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daisuke_Enomoto.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisuke_Enomoto > Source revision: 1339570514 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Japanese businessman Daisuke Enomoto Enomoto in 2006 Born April 22, 1971 (1971-04-22) (age 55) Matsudo, Japan Occupation Businessman Space career Spaceflight participant Candidate Selection 2005 Missions None **Daisuke Enomoto** (榎本 大輔, *Enomoto Daisuke*; born April 22, 1971, nicknamed *Dice-K*) is a Japanese businessman and former [livedoor](/source/Livedoor) executive who hoped to become the fourth [space tourist](/source/Space_tourism). He had trained at [Star City, Moscow](/source/Star_City%2C_Moscow) in Russia to fly with two members of [Expedition 14](/source/Expedition_14) on board [Soyuz TMA-9](/source/Soyuz_TMA-9), which was launched on September 18, 2006. However, on August 21, 2006, a Russian Federal Space Agency spokesman announced that Enomoto was "deemed not ready to fly for exclusively medical reasons", although he hinted that Enomoto might recover and join a later mission. His replacement on this particular flight was [Iranian-American](/source/Iranian-American) businesswoman [Anousheh Ansari](/source/Anousheh_Ansari). Enomoto lodged a [lawsuit](/source/Lawsuit) against Virginia-based [Space Adventures](/source/Space_Adventures) in which he hoped to reclaim the $21 million he paid the company over a two-year span.[1] During the lawsuit,[2] it was revealed that the "medical reason" was chronic [kidney stones](/source/Kidney_stones).[3] Space Adventures claims it advised Enomoto to treat the kidney stones aggressively and when he did not, they had to disqualify him from spaceflight. Enomoto claims that he was misled about the kidney stones issue,[2] and that the real reason for his disqualification was his refusal to provide additional funds to Space Adventures.[3] Enomoto would have been the first *self-funded* [space tourist](/source/Space_tourist) from Japan and Asia (journalist [Toyohiro Akiyama](/source/Toyohiro_Akiyama) flew on [Soyuz TM-11](/source/Soyuz_TM-11) in 1990, and could be regarded as the first space business traveller). Enomoto's flight would have taken him to the [International Space Station](/source/International_Space_Station) (ISS) after lifting off from the [Baikonur Cosmodrome](/source/Baikonur_Cosmodrome) in Kazakhstan, the world's oldest [spaceport](/source/Spaceport). Enomoto made international news when it was revealed that he intended to go into space wearing a [costume](/source/Cosplay) akin to that of [Char Aznable](/source/Char_Aznable), a character from the [anime](/source/Anime) series *[Mobile Suit Gundam](/source/Mobile_Suit_Gundam)*.[4][5] His planned experiment was to put together one or more [Gundam models](/source/Gundam_model) in [zero gravity](/source/Zero_gravity).[4] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Klotz_1-0)** Klotz, Irene (2008-11-26). ["Grounded space tourist wants $21 million refund"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080929231644/http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080925/sc_nm/us_space_touristscience). [Yahoo News](/source/Yahoo_News). Archived from [the original](https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080925/sc_nm/us_space_touristscience) on September 29, 2008. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Cacheris_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Cacheris_2-1) Cacheris. ["Enomoto v. Space Adventures"](https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2304862/enomoto-v-space-adventures-ltd/). 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-BARAKAT_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-BARAKAT_3-1) Barakat, Matthew (2008-09-21). ["Would-be Japanese space tourist wants $21M back"](https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_re_us/space_tourism_lawsuit).{{[cite web](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_web)}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service ([link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:CS1_maint:_deprecated_archival_service)) 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-wired1_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-wired1_4-1) Kravets, David (2008-09-24). ["Wannabe Space Tourist Wants $21 Million Back Over Scuttled Mission"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081021104401/http://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/09/enomoto_lawsuit). *[Wired News](/source/Wired_News)*. Archived from [the original](https://www.wired.com/science/space/news/2008/09/enomoto_lawsuit) on 2008-10-21. Retrieved 2008-10-28. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-wired2_5-0)** Reiss, Spencer (October 2008). ["Space Get Up"](https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/start.html?pg=18). [Wired](/source/Wired_(magazine)). ## External links - [Spacefacts biography of Daisuke Enomoto](http://www.spacefacts.de/bios/international/english/enomoto_daisuke.htm) - [Biography of Daisuke Enomoto](https://web.archive.org/web/20060312100343/http://www.dice-k.com/08/index.html) on his [own web site](https://web.archive.org/web/20060218081328/http://www.dice-k.com/) - [Space Adventures Announces Next Private Space Explorer](https://web.archive.org/web/20100307171457/http://www.space.com/news/051103_enomoto_adventure.html) - [Medical defeats 4th space tourist](https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5271820.stm) - [The Space Tourist Who Wasn't](https://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-09/ff_starcity_enomoto) v t e Space tourist missions Including orbital and supraorbital spaceflights Past missions Flown tourists Soviet Space Agency/TBS mission (1990: TM-11/TM-10 to Mir) Toyohiro Akiyama Soviet Space Agency/Project Juno (1991: TM-12/TM-11 to Mir) Helen Sharman MirCorp ISS EP-1 (2001: TM-32/TM-31 to ISS) Dennis Tito Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (2002: TM-34/TM-33 to ISS) Mark Shuttleworth Space Adventures Expedition 11/12 (2005: TMA-7/TMA-6 to ISS) Gregory Olsen Space Adventures Expedition 13/14 (2006: TMA-9/TMA-8 to ISS) Anousheh Ansari Space Adventures Expedition 14/15 (2007: TMA-10/TMA-9 to ISS) Charles Simonyi Space Adventures Expedition 17/18 (2008: TMA-13/TMA-12 to ISS) Richard Garriott Space Adventures Expedition 18/19 (2009: TMA-14/TMA-13 to ISS) Charles Simonyi Space Adventures Expedition 19/20/21 (2009: TMA-16/TMA-14 to ISS) Guy Laliberté SpaceX/Shift4 Inspiration4 (2021) Jared Isaacman Sian Proctor Hayley Arceneaux Christopher Sembroski Space Adventures (2021: MS-20 to ISS) Yusaku Maezawa Yozo Hirano Axiom Space/SpaceX (2022: Ax-1 to ISS) Larry Connor Mark Pathy Eytan Stibbe Axiom Space/SpaceX (2023: Ax-2 to ISS) John Shoffner SpaceX Fram2 (2025) Chun Wang Jannicke Mikkelsen Eric Philips Rabea Rogge Projected Axiom Space/SpaceX untitled movie (2025+) Tom Cruise Doug Liman Cancelled missions / tourists MirCorp missions to Mir (2000; Mir shut-down, then de-orbitted) Richard Garriott (2001: replaced by Dennis Tito) Lance Bass (2002: Space Adventures ISS EP-4 – TMA-1/TM-34) Daisuke Enomoto (2006: replaced by Anousheh Ansari) Inspiration Mars (2018, 2021; defunct by 2015) Space Adventures/SpaceX mission 1 (2022; contract expired) SpaceX dearMoon (2024) Lists List of billionaire spacetravellers Space tourists Space tourism This Japanese business–related biographical article is a stub. 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