MirCorp 'citizen-explorer' begins training at Star City

Dennis Tito, the California businessman who is paying his own way to fly to the Mir space station next year, began training for the flight yesterday at Russia's Star City. Tito, 59, received his medical certificate from the panel of doctors that approve cosmonauts for space flight, according to...

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