While Allen said that he’s planning to wait some time before journeying beyond Earth himself—even on one of his own Stratolaunch vehicles—Simonyi said he’s actually lobbied the Microsoft co-founder to take the leap. “I’m urging him to take weightless fli

Stratolaunch Systems board members Mike Griffin, former NASA administrator, and Burt Rutan, areospace designer, shake hands with Paul Allen at a press conference for Stratolaunch Systems. A model of the carrier aircraft with multi-stage rocket booster an

The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft seen after landing in Kazakhstan on April 8, 2009 with self-financed space traveler Charles Simonyi aboard. Now his property, Simonyi has loaned the capsule to The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington, for display in their

Museum of Flight show off the Russian Soyuz spaceship that brought him back to Earth in 2009, along with his spacesuit and "a real, working space toilet" from Russia.The arrangement, announced today, comes on top of the $3 million that Simonyi and his wi

Quantum fluctuations in science, space and society, from quarks to Hubble and Mars. Served up by Alan Boyle, msnbc.com science editor. E-mail Alan, or connect via Facebook, Twitter or Google+. Spacesuits lie next to the Soyuz space capsule that returned

A Russian space vehicle is on its way to Seattle. Charles Simonyi, Medina software innovator, philanthropist and two-time space tourist, announced Wednesday the Soyuz re-entry module that safely carried him back from a 2009 joint Russian-American space m

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Museum of Flight (MOF) announced today its new state-of-the-art, 15,500-square-foot space gallery will be named the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery in honor of Charles Simonyi, two-time space traveler, architect of Micro

The Museum of Flight (MOF) announced today its new state-of-the-art, 15,500-square-foot space gallery will be named the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery in honor of Charles Simonyi, two-time space traveler, architect of Microsoft Word, and founder of

That's likely to be the first thing visitors notice when they set foot inside the Museum of Flight's $12 million Charles Simonyi Space Gallery, opening to the public Saturday. The gallery, across East Marginal Way South from the museum's main building, i