Lisa Persdotter (L) and her husband, U.S. billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi (R) wearing Kazakh national costumes, attend a news conference at the Karaganda airport before departure to Moscow on April 8, 2009. The capsule carrying a Russian-American crew, safely returned to Earth along with a U.S. 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

Lisa Persdotter (L) and her husband, U.S. billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi (R) wearing Kazakh national costumes, attend a news conference at the Karaganda airport before departure to Moscow on April 8, 2009. The capsule carrying a Russian-American crew, safely returned to Earth along with a U.S. billionaire whose the second paid voyage to the international space station ended with a landing on the Kazakh steppe.

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