U.S. entrepreneur Charles Simonyi waves to his wife after putting on his space suit at Baikonur Cosmodrome March 26, 2009. Simonyi will roar off into space aboard a Russian rocket on Thursday to make history as the first tourist to make the odyssey twice. He will travel to the International Space Station (ISS) with Russia's cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and U.S. astronaut Michael Barratt.[Xinhua/Reuters]
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