{"id":749,"date":"2012-04-07T14:18:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T14:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress65\/?p=749"},"modified":"2012-04-07T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T14:18:31","slug":"two-time-space-tourists-first-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grayrinehart.com\/blog\/two-time-space-tourists-first-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"A Two-Time Space Tourist&#39;s First Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago today &#8212; April 7, 2007 &#8212; Hungarian-American software executive Charles Simonyi blasted off on the first of his two tourist trips to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/0\/03\/SoyuzTMA-10_Approaches_ISS.jpg\/640px-SoyuzTMA-10_Approaches_ISS.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Soyuz 14 [TMA-10] approaches the International Space Station. NASA image from Wikimedia Commons.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\/nmc\/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=2007-008A\">Soyuz TMA-10<\/a> lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying Simonyi and cosmonauts Oleg V. Kotov and Fyodor N. Yurchikhin. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Simonyi\">Simonyi<\/a>, who made his fortune as one of the primary developers of the Microsoft Office products Word and Excel, spent about 2 weeks in space before returning to earth aboard TMA-9.<\/p>\n<p>That would not be Simonyi&#8217;s only trip to space, however: In March 2009 he returned to the ISS aboard TMA-14.<\/p>\n<a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" 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