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A U.S. scientist paying $20 million to hitch a ride to the International Space Station said Tuesday that he hopes to do some research in optics and medicine while in orbit.
Greg Olsen is scheduled to blast off Oct. 1 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz ship with cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and astronaut William McArthur.
Olsen, who has advanced degrees in physics and materials science, made his fortune on optic inventions. He is the co-founder of Sensors Unlimited Inc., a New Jersey company that makes infrared imaging cameras and fiber-optic communications components.
