Space commuter hopes to develop civilian flights
The cosmonauts, Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, are to replace Russian Mikhail Tyurin and American Miguel Lopez-Alegria, who have been on the International Space Station since late September. Simonyi, Tyurin and Lopez-Alegria are to return to Earth on April 20.
Mr Simonyi, 58, who made a fortune with projects including Microsoft Word, is paying over £10 million for the trip organised by US-based Space Adventures, which has also brokered the trips of four “space tourists” before him.
