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Space limo with billionaire Simonyi to dock 04.09.07 at NASA space station

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The Russian spacecraft Soyuz TMA-10 is scheduled to dock at the International Space Station at about 3:12 p.m. Monday, April 9, 2007, carrying U.S. billionaire and ISS spaceflight participant Simonyi and a gourmet meal fit for a king.

The gourmet meal is compliments of Simonyi's  girlfriend and homemaking mogul Martha Stewart. The meal will be eaten in honor of Cosmonauts Day on Thursday, April 12, which is a Russian celebration of Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight in 1961.

All of these events and others will be shown live on NASA TV.

Highlighted space station events over the next two weeks, from April 7 to 20, 2007, appears at NASA SCHEDULE.

Interest in the Expedition 15 mission has increased now that the fifth space tourist Charles Simonyi, a former software developer for the fledgling Microsoft Corporation of the 1980s, has been launched into space.

Additional information about Simonyi and the Soyuz capsule is found at the ITwire articles “Charles Simonyi: software pioneer, aviator, and space tourist” by William Atkins and “Is Russia’s Soyuz capsule just a space taxi?” by Stephen Withers.