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US software tycoon makes space history
Updated On: 27 March, 2009 09:24 AM IST | | Agencies
US software pioneer Charles Simonyi (60) yesterday became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist, as he blasted off to the International Space Station.
US software pioneer Charles Simonyi (60) yesterday became the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist, as he blasted off to the International Space Station.
Simonyi, along with an American and a Russian astronaut, was launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome the same launchpad that was used in the first ever human space flight, that of Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin in 1961.
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