Billionaire Microsoft travels the universe

The billionaire Charles Simonyi of Microsoft Corporation has dedicated a portion of his fortune to space travel. In outer space, Charles will have to cope with nausea due to being "drunk" and repair broken equipment himself.

According to the plan, the Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel programmers will leave the earth on Saturday on a Russian ship. Spacecraft will take two days to the International Space Station and will stay 12 days in orbit. The total cost for this luxury tour is US $ 25 million, including money for training and adaptation to the cosmic environment in Russia. Simonyi will return to Earth on April 20 also on a Russian space ship.

The reason why Microsoft 's doctor of computer science decided to make such a monumental space trip is to promote the type of space exploration tourism for civilians and, moreover, want to learn more. Details of how the technical systems work.

Of course, all these reasons did not make this 58-year-old Hungarian man lose the romantic excitement in this unique tour.

He confessed: ' Being immersed in orbit, coming and watching the International Space Station, I think it's a wonderful feeling '.

As Simonyi intended, after setting foot on the space station, he would try to get some samples of the bacteria there and fix two broken radios.

However, if unfortunately, Simonyi will likely be "drunk", the result of sudden weightlessness. Before Simonyi, the space traveler Anousheh Ansaric also had this problem and he had to inject some anti-intoxicating shots.

Simonyi said if he needed, he would also get anti-drunk but he still hoped the training process would increase his tolerance. The training period used to have sections on the rotating chair, describing the physical condition when losing weight. According to Simonyi, those lessons were the hardest challenge for him during his preparation for this space expedition.

The only thing Simonyi did not think about was the worry about an accident. Meanwhile, his mother was so worried about him that he could not attend his son's departure. Simonyi took more care of the meticulous rituals the Russians carried out before boarding the departure train.

He said: ' I am more nervous because of rituals than about technical details. I think I'll only calm down when I'm in the spacecraft '.

Attending the meeting, Simonyi had his girlfriend, housewife queen Martha Stewart and an accompanying film crew. Ms. Stewart met privately with people living on the space station Michael Lopez - Alegria and Sunita Williams in January to ask them to take care of Simonyi. Also in this footprint, there was Bill Gates, a former Simonyi colleague who attended.

Do Duong