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Ex-Microsoft Programmer Becomes World's Most Frequent Space Tourist
The world's most frequent intragalactic tourist returned to Earth on Wednesday.
Charles Simonyi (pictured, left), who became the fifth commercial passenger of a space flight in 2007, is the first commercial passenger to have taken two trips to the International Space Station.
Simonyi, 60, formerly a prominent software engineer who contributed to the development of Microsoft Word and Excel, paid $25 million for the roundtrip flights and 10 days he spent on the ISS in April of 2007 and $35 million for the roundtrip flights and his 11 days' visit this year from March 26 to April 8.
Simonyi, a native Hungarian who immigrated to the U.S. in 1968 at age 20, was a passenger on Russia's Roskosmos Soyuz spacecraft for both flights. Multimillion-dollar commercial passenger seats will be temporarily unavailable while flights will serve to increase the ISS's long-term crew from three to six astronauts and/or cosmonauts and/or other types of whatever-nauts.
Charles Simonyi (pictured, left), who became the fifth commercial passenger of a space flight in 2007, is the first commercial passenger to have taken two trips to the International Space Station.Simonyi, 60, formerly a prominent software engineer who contributed to the development of Microsoft Word and Excel, paid $25 million for the roundtrip flights and 10 days he spent on the ISS in April of 2007 and $35 million for the roundtrip flights and his 11 days' visit this year from March 26 to April 8.
Simonyi, a native Hungarian who immigrated to the U.S. in 1968 at age 20, was a passenger on Russia's Roskosmos Soyuz spacecraft for both flights. Multimillion-dollar commercial passenger seats will be temporarily unavailable while flights will serve to increase the ISS's long-term crew from three to six astronauts and/or cosmonauts and/or other types of whatever-nauts.
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Bob
11:11AM 11:11AM Apr 9th 2009
Wow, think of all the miles he has accumulated.
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d
11:19AM 11:19AM Apr 9th 2009
How sad that this man has to spend this much money for a thrill ride when soooo many people are hurting financially right now. Maybe he should go see slumdog millionare!
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james s palmer
11:24PM 11:24PM Apr 11th 2009
I think it is wonderful that a man has made so much money that he can afford to do such a thing. The people that make money like that do hire people and give jobs. he was smart enough to take an opportunity and become a very rich man.
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