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Space Tourist Simonyi To Launch Thursday On Soyuz For Record-Setting Second Space Tourist Flight To Station

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Monday, March 23rd, 2009

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Charles Simonyi will launch Thursday on a Soyuz space vehicle, becoming the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station twice. He is the seventh tourist whose voyage was arranged by Space Adventures, Ltd., the space travel company. Simonyi will launch to the station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. He will travel with the Expedition 19 crew, which includes Commander Gennady Padalka of the Russian space agency and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt of…

Congress

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Army

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