U.S. entrepreneur Gregory Olsen will be the third tourist to visit space on a Russian rocket, Russia's space agency said on Wednesday. Olsen, a technology innovator considered an authority on lasers and crystal growth, had been scheduled to visit the International Space Station (ISS) in April but local media reported his application was rejected on health grounds. "Recently a contract was signed between Olsen and Roscosmos and the American tourist was added to the crew of the ninth expedition to the ISS," Vyacheslav Davidenko, spokesman for the Federal Space Agency, told Itar-Tass news agency. Interfax news agency said he would take off in October. Russian Soyuz craft carry three-man crews and have taken two tourists -- U.S. businessman Dennis Tito and South Africa's Mark Shuttleworth -- on week-long trips into space for reported fees of $20 million.
