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.
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April 26, 2007U.S. space tourist Charles Simonyi returned safely to Earth on Saturday, touching down with a Russian-U.S. crew in the steppe of Central Asia the Reuters news agency reports.
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April 23, 2007U.S. space tourist Charles Simonyi enjoyed an extra day in space on Tuesday when boggy ground meant the date and location of his return to Earth in a capsule with two others had to be changed, the Reuters news agency reported Monday.
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April 18, 2007The Kremlin has vetoed a move to launch a fresh investigation into the death of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, despite aviation specialists’ belief that they have unraveled one of the 20th century’s greatest enigmas.
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April 12, 2007Russian astronauts preparing for next month’s trip to the International Space Station said they would be happy to carry out spacewalks with tourists, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Wednesday.
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March 22, 2007The date for Malaysia’s first astronaut to go to space has been moved to October 6 from September 2 of 2007, media reports reaching here said Friday.
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December 15, 2006
The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) announced that a contract for the flight of a Korean astronaut to the Russian segment of the International Space Station in a Russian spacecraft Soyuz in the spring of 2008 would be signed in Moscow on Thursday.
Roskosmos’ chief Anatoly Perminov and KARI president Hong-Yul Pak will sign the document.
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December 5, 2006Astronaut Mikhail Tyurin smacked a golf ball into orbit off the International Space Station on Wednesday to raise money for the Russian space program during a spacewalk cut short by a balky spacesuit.
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November 23, 2006Malaysia’s first astronaut will go to the International Space Station on a Russian spacecraft to play traditional Malay children’s games without gravity, AP reported on Wednesday.
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November 16, 2006The price of a commercial flight to the International Space Station has risen from $20 million to $21 million, a Russian space official is quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying.
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November 10, 2006
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