California millionaire Dennis Tito, a 60-year-old investment manager, paid $20 million last January to the Russian Aviation and Space Agency so he could go for a ride. Instead, reports the Orlando Sentinel, he was taken for one. Though the Russians appear to be welcoming Tito with an open bear hug and an open door on the scheduled April 30 joy ride aboard a Soyuz rocket, NASA and the station's 14 other international partners are reportedly arguing that Tito's presence would jeopardize safety during a critical time for station operations. At the moment there appears to be a standoff in the situation. On Monday of this week, Tito and his two cosmonaut crewmates, Talgat Musabayev and Yuri Baturin, showed up at the Johnson Space Station in Houston to begin a week of pre-flight training. But when Tito was turned away, Musabayev and Baturin said they weren't going, either. "The commander (Musabayev) objected to the fact Mr. Tito would not be participating," NASA spokeswoman Debbie Rahn told the Sentinel. "He elected not to take part in the training without him." Houston, you've got a problem.