Will the 5th cosmonaut take a walk in space?

Hungarian American billionaire Charles Simonyi will join Russia's Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft to leave the Baikonur Space Center and fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on April 7.

Simonyi Billionaire (Photo: cbc.ca)

Billionaire Simonyi, 58, the author of an indispensable application program on computers today such as Microsoft World, Microsoft Excel, is being trained by Russian astronauts at the center near Moscow since October 2006. .

Mr. Simonyi paid more than $ 20 million to become the world's fifth cosmonaut during his 11-day journey with famous Russian astronauts.

Mr. Fyodor Yurchikhin, commander of the flight to ISS, said: Astronauts are happy to serve tourists with a special gift of walking on space with them.

Astronaut Oleg Kotov said tourists who want to walk on space must undergo special training. In addition to the strict program like with 4 previous tourists, Simonyi billionaire in the past few months has been trained in technique and tolerance when walking on space.

However, Russian astronauts have not yet declared whether this fifth tourist is allowed to walk in the universe or just in a space shuttle and sightseeing.

Billionaire Simonyi (left) is being trained to walk the universe