{"id":986,"date":"2006-10-29T01:08:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T00:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/charles-simonyi-plans-to-be-space-tourist\/"},"modified":"2006-10-29T01:08:54","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T00:08:54","slug":"charles-simonyi-plans-to-be-space-tourist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/charles-simonyi-plans-to-be-space-tourist\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Simonyi plans to be space tourist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a March 2007 spaceflight in hand, American space tourist-in-training Charles Simonyi celebrated with a launch of his own Thursday as he debuted a personal website where he&#8217;ll document his trek to the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n<p>Simonyi [<a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/space\/sc_space\/storytext\/nextspacetouristlauncheswebsiteaimsfororbit\/20741734\/SIG=1aglmlf4n\/*http:\/\/www.space.com\/php\/multimedia\/imagedisplay\/img_display.php?pic=061026_simonyi_soyuz_02.jpg&#038;cap=Space+tourist-in-training+Charles+Simonyi+sits+inside+a+Soyuz+spacecraft+mockup+clad+in+a+Russian+Sokol+spacesuit.+Credit%3A+%3Ca+href%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.charlesinspace.com%22%3Ewww.charlesinspace.com%3C%2Fa%3E.+Click+to+enlarge.+\">image<\/a>], 58, is now set to launch towards the ISS on March 9, 2007 aboard a Russian-built Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft that will also ferry two Expedition 15 cosmonauts to the orbital laboratory. He plans to lay down his training and flight experiences on the Internet at his website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlesinspace.com\/\">www.charlesinspace.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to share all that I learn with everybody, especially with kids so that they may become more involved with space sciences,&#8221; said Simonyi, a former Microsoft software developer and co-founder of Intentional Software Corp., during a Thursday press conference at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington. &#8220;I am very honored and excited to be joining the Soyuz TMA-10 mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/space\/20061027\/sc_space\/nextspacetouristlauncheswebsiteaimsfororbit\">Yahoo News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a March 2007 spaceflight in hand, American space tourist-in-training Charles Simonyi celebrated with a launch of his own Thursday as he debuted a personal website where he&#8217;ll document his trek to the International Space Station (ISS). Simonyi [image], 58, is now set to launch towards the ISS on March 9, 2007 aboard a Russian-built Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft that will<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/29\/charles-simonyi-plans-to-be-space-tourist\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charles Simonyi plans to be space tourist!&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-nature","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}