Grinning hugely, Tito gave a thumbs up sign. I don't know about this adaptation that they're talking about. Russian mission control said Tito had been ill on Sunday and had vomited, but had quickly recovered.
Motion sickness is common even among professional spacemen, especially on their first day in space.
Tito and the two Russian cosmonauts accompanying him will spend a week as guests of Usachev and his two American crewmates on board the International Space Station. The financier will not be allowed into U.S. segments of the orbiter without an escort and has had to pledge to pay for anything he breaks. But Russia says it is a full partner in the space station, and can fill its quota of seats with whomever it wants. Russian space officials say they are already discussing the next candidates prepared to follow Tito on paid flights. Even after NASA gave its grudging approval, computer glitches on the space station had threatened to hold up Tito's arrival.