Ex-Microsoft exec set to be space tourist
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
While training to become the next tourist in space, Charles Simonyi was delighted to see that the hundreds of pages of Russian documentation onboard the spacecraft were written using Microsoft Word.
After all, he led the Microsoft team that invented the popular software.
On March 9, Simonyi is scheduled to launch into orbit aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with an eight-day stopover on the International Space Station, before returning to Earth 10 days later. He'll be the world's fifth space tourist.