Simonyi to tell about space travel on his blog · 2007-04-10 13:47
American space tourist Charles Simonyi and Russian cosmonauts have arrived at Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams' home in space on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, Times of India web site informed.
The crew docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, two days after lifting off from a Russian launch pad in the Central Asian steppe.
The new arrivals floated through an airlock on Tuesday and hugged Williams, ISS commander American Mike Lopez-Alegria and Russian Mikhail Tyurin.
A software programmer and co-founder of Microsoft Simonyi will return to Earth on April 20 with Lopez-Alegria and Tyurin who are concluding a seven-month tour of duty aboard the space station.
Charles Simonyi paid $25 million for his trip to orbit. He said he had already filled three or four pages of a notebook “recording every moment of this flight”, and said he would post his impressions on his internet blog.
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