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Charles Simonyi scored second trip to the space station next year Space station-bound space tourist Charles Simonyi trains inside a Soyuz spacecraft simulator while wearing a Sokol spacesuit. He's snagged a second trip thanks to his membership in an elite six-person club. American billionaire Charles Simonyi snagged his history-making second space tourist trip to the space station next year thanks to an elite club that gives its members first dibs on private spaceflight seats. Simonyi, 60, is paying about $35 million to launch to the space station in spring 2009 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on a spaceflight that will come two years after his first $25 million flight. He's flying again under a deal between Russia's Federal Space Agency and the Vienna, Va.-based firm Space Adventures. It was through Space Adventures'... [read full story]
