$25 Million Space Tourist Simonyi: "It Was Absolutely Worthwhile"
Charles Simonyi is remarkably coherent for someone who traveled 5 million miles over the past two weeks, zooming through space at 17,000 miles per hour.
He called Monday morning from Star City, the Russian space command center, where he's undergoing standard post-flight rehabilitation with fellow passengers on the Soyuz TMA-9 spacecraft.
The software pioneer, who lives in Medina, landed Saturday after 14 days in orbit, the longest private spaceflight since Virginia-based Space Adventures began arranging for wealthy individuals to travel with astronauts and cosmonauts going to and from the international space station.
The Seattle Times | Brier Dudley | April 24, 2007 11:06 AM