Saturday, April 07, 2007

Rocket fueled for billionaire's launch

Rocket fueled for billionaire's launch (AP)

Charles Simonyi, left, and his friend Martha Stewart smile, with a glass wall between them, during a farewell ceremony at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Friday, April 6, 2007. Martha Stewart, who turned her vision of gracious living into a business empire, arrived in one of the most remote corners of the planet to bid bon voyage to close friend Charles Simonyi, who is about to become the world's fifth space tourist. (AP Photo/Maxim Marmur, Pool)AP - Russian engineers made last-minute preparations for the Saturday launch of a Soyuz capsule bound for the international space station with two cosmonauts and U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi aboard.

***I guess she will be taken to outer space as well.  Goodbye, Martha.


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