MOSCOW, February 18 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. millionaire Charles Simonyi who is set to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) as a space tourist April 7 arrived in Moscow Sunday for final training.
Simonyi, an American of Hungarian origin and one of the founders of Microsoft Corporation, said he plans to make experiments in orbit on orders from the European Space Agency, and also to carry out his own scientific program, particularly, a medical experiment to study radiation effects on humans.
Dennis Tito, an American businessman and former NASA scientist, became the first space tourist when he visited the ISS in 2001. He was followed by South African computer millionaire Mark Shuttleworth in 2002 and Gregory Olsen, a U.S. entrepreneur and scientist, in 2005.
Anousheh Ansari, 40, a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin and a telecommunications businesswoman, became the first female space tourist last year.
