A 58-year-old software engineer is set to become the fifth ever space tourist when he blasts off on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft today.Billionaire Charles Simonyi, who led development of Microsoft's Word, will lift off from Kazakhstan at 1731 GMT.
The $20m ride will make him the 450th person to enter orbit and by his own admission "the first nerd in space".
With two professional cosmonauts, he is now making final preparations in a quarantine unit at Baikonur Cosmodrome.
"There are really two reasons for the isolation," Dr Simonyi told the BBC News website.
"The practical reason is so that you don't get sick. The other reason is perhaps psychological - it helps you focus on the task ahead."
3 comments:
this is martha stewart's new 'fella'
Is he good in the kitchen then ? :)
on the kitchen table maybe?
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