Software billionaire Charles Simonyi peeks inside the Soyuz spacecraft he purchased and is now lending to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. The Soyuz TMA-14, which Simonyi rode into space in 2009, was shipped from Russia and was unpacked at the museum on

Ted Huetter / Museum of Flight Software billionaire Charles Simonyi peeks inside the Soyuz spacecraft he purchased and is now lending to the Museum of Flight in Seattle. The Soyuz TMA-14, which Simonyi rode into space in 2009, was shipped from Russia and

The Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft was delivered to The Museum of Flight in Seattle on Friday, February 10, 2012. The spacecraft, which transported former Microsoft executive Charles Simonyi to the International Space Station, is on display in the Charles Simon

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, The Museum of Flight in Seattle welcomed an exciting new space artifact, as Charles Simonyi and representatives from the Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, delivered the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft. This historic craft

The Museum of Flight’s Charles Simonyi Space Gallery in Seattle receives its newest space artifact, the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft, on Friday, February 10. The Soyuz TMA-14 was the module on which Simonyi trained and traveled to the International Space Stat

Pictured left to right are NASA's Mission Operations Director Paul Hill, astronaut Gregory C. Johnson and the Museum of Flight’s President Douglas King during a ceremony at the Johnson Space Center on Jan. 19, 2012. The Houston facility officially handed

There's a strange concept in marketing that no publicity is really bad. If people talk about you, it broadly raises brand awareness. People eventually forget the bad news but not the brand. Who remembers last year's furor over Apple's onerous publisher s

It's 121 feet long, made of plywood and was used to train every U.S. space-shuttle crew over the past 30 years. In an hourlong ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday, NASA transferred ownership of the "full-fuselage shuttle trainer" to S

Here's a trick question: who's produced the most books in the past 30 years? Answer: a guy called Charles Simonyi. Eh? Well, I said it was a trick question. Mr Simonyi, you see, is the chap who created Microsoft Word, which is the word-processing program

December 30, 2011 / 9:17 a.m. CT (1517 GMT) : Having logged more than a month in space on his three missions (including the final space shuttle flight), Rex Walheim is no stranger to floating. But come Monday (Jan. 2), he will embark on his first float —

Esther Dyson Esther in a spacesuit 'Zero-G Esther' Esther Dyson (Twitter: edyson) is a most fascinating lady. She's a noted former journalist; a captivated Internet scholar; an acclaimed angel; a passionate philanthrop

December 23, 2011 / 7:03 p.m. CT (0103 GMT Dec 24) : A not-so-strange metal "space ball" dropped out of the sky and slammed in to the remote grassland of northern Namibia last month, according to media reports. The 14-inch-wide (35-centimeter) metallic s

A WYSIWYG (pronounced "wiz-ee-wig") editor or program is one that allows a developer to see what the end result will look like while the interface or document is being created. WYSIWYG is an acronym for "what you see is what you get". The first true WYSI

Among the aerospace luminaries gathered in Paul Allen's Seattle aerie for the announcement of his giant space cargo plane was his friend and former co-worker Charles Simonyi. Simonyi reported to Allen in the early days at Microsoft, when Simonyi was deve

The tycoons of cyberspace are looking to bankroll America's resurgence in outer space, reviving "Star Trek" dreams that first interested them in science. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen made the latest step Tuesday, unveiling plans for a new commercial s

The tycoons of cyberspace are looking to bankroll America's resurgence in outer space, reviving “Star Trek” dreams that first interested them in science. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen made the latest step Tuesday, unveiling plans for a new commercial s

Microsoft co-founder made the latest step unveiling plans for a new commercial spaceship that would be carried high into the atmosphere.

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen made the latest step Tuesday, unveilin

SEATTLE The tycoons of cyberspace are looking to bankroll America's resurgence in outer space, reviving "Star Trek" dreams that first interested them in science.Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen made the latest step Tuesday, unveiling plans for a new comme