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# 15399 byBsanctuary@... on July 20, 2001, 4:24 p.m.
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Re:
Date: Thu Nov 2, 2000 11:09 pm
>Even our millionaires and billionaires don't go into orbit on a
>holiday. If ever Bill Gates or somebody like him
>goes into space and pays for it out of his own pocket we will
>have made progress.
News Item:
July 20, 2001
2nd tycoon trains for space flight
MOSCOW (AP) - A South African Internet tycoon is training [to]
becom[e] the second ... tourist to ride into orbit, Russian
officials and a spokesman for the multimillionaire said Thursday.
Mark Shuttleworth, 27, is undergoing tests and training at the ...
cosmonaut training center outside Moscow ....
If he ends up traveling in space,[he] would be the second so-called
space tourist the Russians have taken. Calif. businessman Denis Tito
reportedly paid $20 million to Russia's cash-strapped space agency
for an eight-day trip to the int. space station in April and May.
Source: Infobeat News