Billionaire space tourist docks at space station

A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian cosmonaut, an American astronaut and US billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi has docked at the international space station.

Billionaire space tourist docks at space station
Sat, 28 Mar, 2009 - 15:14

A Soyuz capsule carrying a Russian cosmonaut, an American astronaut and US billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi has docked at the international space station.

Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka manually guided the capsule to a stop ahead of schedule today two days after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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