Lisa Persdotter, left, and her husband, U.S. billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi seen shortly after the landing of the Soyuz capsule, about 136 km ( 80 miles) northeast of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The capsule carrying a Russian-American crew, safely returned to Earth on Wednesday along with a U.S. billionaire whose second paid voyage to the international space station ended with a landing on the Kazakh steppe. AP Photo logo AP Photo 8 months ago

Lisa Persdotter, left, and her husband, U.S. billionaire space tourist Charles Simonyi seen shortly after the landing of the Soyuz capsule, about 136 km ( 80 miles) northeast of the Kazakh town of Dzhezkazgan, Wednesday, April 8, 2009. The capsule carrying a Russian-American crew, safely returned to Earth on Wednesday along with a U.S. billionaire whose second paid voyage to the international space station ended with a landing on the Kazakh steppe.

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  1. RNPS IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2009 - U.S. entrepreneur Charles Simonyi undergoes a training session on a rotating chair in the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, March 18, 2009. U.S. software mogul Simonyi plans to make history this month by becoming the first tourist to travel to space twice.
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