Comment on Toyohiro Akiyama deserved better

• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was a publicity stunt by his employer, a news network, to pay for a Japanese person to go to Mir.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Aaah…

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• stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He was the backup, the primary reporter was a young woman, but she had a medical emergency shortly before launch.

  If you want to know more, Failure To Launch podcast has an excellent episode on this

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  • jaaake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Genuinely thought you were trying to troll us into watching a Matthew McConaughey movie.

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  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thank you, but that still doesn’t explain why he was even considered.

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  • The_v@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ryoko Kikuchi had appendicitis a week before launch.

    She did eventually make it into space however.

    http://www.astronautix.com/k/kikuchi.html

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