US software designer and space tourist Charles Simonyi (L), US astronaut Mike Fincke (R), and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov (C) sit in chairs shortly after landing the Russian Souyz TMA-13 space capsule about 136 km (80 miles) north-east of the Kazakh town Dzhezkazgan on April 8, 2009. The capsule carrying a Russian-American crew, safely returned to Earth on along with a US billionaire whose the second paid voyage to the international space station ended with a landing on the Kazakh steppe. Getty Images logo Getty Images 8 months ago

US software designer and space tourist Charles Simonyi (L), US astronaut Mike Fincke (R), and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov (C) sit in chairs shortly after landing the Russian Souyz TMA-13 space capsule about 136 km (80 miles) north-east of the Kazakh town Dzhezkazgan on April 8, 2009. The capsule carrying a Russian-American crew, safely returned to Earth on along with a US billionaire whose the second paid voyage to the international space station ended with a landing on the Kazakh steppe.

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