23 April 2007
The International Space Station
Credit: NASA
Charles Simonyi,US billionaire and World's fifth space tourist, landed safely in Kazakhstan, on Saturday, 21 April 2007. He made the trip from the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, with two crewmates, Mikhail Tyurin, Russian cosmonaut, and Miguel Lopez-Alegria, American astronaut.
Simonyi, 58, is a Hungarian-born software engineer. He paid $25 million to the Russian Space Agency for the spaceflight ticket. He stayed 10 days aboard the ISS.
American space woman, Sunita Williams, stayed onboard the ISS with newly-arrived Expedition 15 crew, Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov.
Further Reading
ISS
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Aymen Mohamed Ibrahem
Senior Astronomy Specialist