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Expedition 20 bids farewell to orbit, heads to Earth 11 October, 2009, 06:16 The Soyuz spacecraft with the crew of its 20th mission and a space tourist onboard has undocked from the International Space Station and will return the crew to earth early...
Tags: Earth, Guy Laliberte, Kazakhstan, Russian, circus tycoon, soyuz capsule, capsule carrying, Gennady Padalka, lands safely, space tourist
Three months of planning comes down to two hours today when Cirque du soleil founder Guy Laliberte orchestrates an elaborate poetic spectacle from space. The show will link Canada's first space tourist on the international space station with events in...
Tags: Earth, space tourist, Guy Laliberte, international space, space station, Cirque du Soleil, soleil founder, Poetic Social Mission, Canadian Press Dancers, tourist guy
Canadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte turned space into his big top yesterday, boarding a Russian rocket and lifting off on a mission that mixes a serious message on water shortages with some clowning around in the cosmos. Mr. Laliberte, an experienced...
Tags: International Space Station, Cirque du Soleil, Russian, space tourist, Guy Laliberté
Guy Laliberte has reportedly paid around $35 million for his space adventure. Williams and Surayev will replace their colleagues Michael Barratt and Gennady Padalka, who will return to Earth with Laliberte next month. The crew will spend about half-a-year...
Tags: Billionaire Guy Laliberte, Kazakhstan, space tourist, Cirque de Soleil, Cirque du Soleil, circus billionaire, baikonur cosmodrome, Pavel Popovich, reportedly paid, kazakh steppe
The Soyuz rocket is now in position at the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan, ready for blast-off on Wednesday. The 21st mission crew also includes Russian Maksim Surayev and American Jeffrey Williams, who will both stay in space for six months.
Tags: Guy Laliberte, Kazakhstan, Canadian Cirque, Cirque du Soleil, launch pad, soleil founder, Russian, space tourist
Joining them will be Guy Laliberté, the founder of Cirque du Soleil. Space tourist Guy Laliberté has paid $35 million for the privilege of going into space. The team will blast off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in two weeks on September...
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Cirque du Soleil founder Guy LaLiberte met with journalists Thursday and previewed his upcoming space station visit. He will rocket into orbit from Kazakhstan this fall as a paying tourist.Laliberte says he won't be playing with any fire in space, for...
Tags: soleil founder, space station, Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberte, international space, space tourist, founder guy, Christopher Cassidy, Canada
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte is set to become Canada's first space tourist when he travels on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in September. A spokeswoman for the circus troupe confirmed the trip Wednesday to The Canadian Press but declined to be...
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A Russian manned spacecraft has returned to Earth, landing in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, local media reported. The Soyuz TMA-13 spaceship, with two astronauts and one space tourist aboard, departed from the International Space Station (ISS) at 07:55 Moscow...
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The flight centre near Moscow reported that Soyuz undocked from ISS Wednesday morning and is expected to land in the Kazakhstan steppe around 0716 GMT, the Interfax news agency said. On board are Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, US astronaut Micheael...
Tags: Charles Simonyi, space tourist, space station, Kazakhstan, Hello Earth, international space, Russian, space capsule, soyuz capsule, U.S