Saturday, April 21, 2007

Simonyi heads back to Earth

Space tourist Simonyi heads back to Earth (Reuters)

This image provided by NASA-TV Saturday April 21, 2007 shows space tourist American billionaire Charles Simonyi, center, as he bids farewell to astronaut Sunita Williams, right, before leaving the international space station. A Soyuz TMA-9 craft carrying Mikhail Tyurin, Michael Lopez-Alegria and space tourist Charles Simonyi undocked from the orbital station on schedule at 1:11 p.m. Moscow time (0911 GMT), fired its engines and pulled away, Russian Mission Control spokesman Valery Lyndin said. (AP Photo/NASA)Reuters - Space tourist Charles Simonyi left for Earth on Saturday after a two- week stay at the orbiting International Space Station.


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