The fifth space tourist Charles Simonyi is very optimistic and full of hopes as he came back to the Earth, the Reuters news agency reports.

Simonyi touched down on Saturday after spending two weeks aboard the International Space Station, orbiting 217 miles above Earth.

“I think the Earth is majestic, it’s beautiful,” he was quoted by Reuters on Tuesday at Star City, a Soviet-era training base for cosmonauts near Moscow.

“I am very optimistic and I came back very hopeful. I have more hope.”

Simonyi, 58, said he had many fond memories of the trip, which only four other tourists have made before him.

He added he would have happily prolonged his stay: “One month I would have stayed, no questions.”

Simonyi said he hoped tourists would one day be able to fly to the moon, which he thought very feasible aboard the Russian rocket that ferried him to and from the space station.

“Charles showed us a new point of view,” said Chris Faranetta, a senior executive at the travel agency that arranged all five tourist flights into space.

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