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Toyohiro Akiyama deserved better
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Why was he chosen?
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
Ryoko Kikuchi had appendicitis a week before launch.
She did eventually make it into space however.
http://www.astronautix.com/k/kikuchi.html
Genuinely thought you were trying to troll us into watching a Matthew McConaughey movie.
Thank you, but that still doesn't explain why he was even considered.
It was a publicity stunt by his employer, a news network, to pay for a Japanese person to go to Mir.
Aaah...