Billionaire software programmer Charles Simonyi is set to rocket into space Saturday in a flight to the International Space Station (ISS) that will make him the world's fifth space tourist.
The 58-year-old Simonyi, who was born in Hungary and made his fortune as a pioneer at U.S. software giant Microsoft, will spend 10 days on the station conducting experiments, blogging, and at least part of the time, marvelling at how far he's come.
Simonyi will bring with him a paper ribbon containing a program he wrote on the 1960s Soviet-made Ural-2 computer, as he said, to remind me where it all began.
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