Bill Gates eyes flight to space: cosmonaut

[Ignacio Upton]

Source: Yahoo!/AFP

Wed Apr 11, 11:57 AM ET

MOSCOW (AFP) - The world's richest man,
Bill Gates, is considering a flight into space, a Russian cosmonaut said from the
International Space Station Wednesday, citing Gates' colleague and space tourist Charles Simonyi.
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"Charles said that Bill Gates is also preparing to visit space," cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin told journalists during a video link-up from the space station, broadcast on state television Rossiya.

"So the next time someone will be with Bill Gates. For me this is the biggest surprise of our flight."

Space Adventures, the US-based company that organises the trips, said it had heard nothing from the Microsoft chairman about a possible flight.Wed Apr 11, 11:57 AM ET



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All I have to say is...PLEASE LEAVE HIM THERE! Or better yet, blast him off to the moon with every unsold copy of Vista, and make him "Lunar Governor," in the same way that pirates used to abandon people on islands.

[LisaM]

1. Oh, thanks for the laugh

I needed one. Maybe all the space billionaires could go together.

[Deja Q]

2. Wouldn't the G-force cripple a 50 year old suit who can't drive properly?

[WindRavenX]

4. or dress properly

yikes

[candice]

3. Hey, he was a big Bush 2004 donor...

I can understand someone who wants the Justice Department to save his monopoly voting for Bush in 2000 thinking he might just be an average backward Repug, but in 2004?

Bring back some more H-1B visa holders to cover your cost.

[Ignacio Upton]

7. I thought he donated to both Bush and Kerry in '04?

n/t.

[brentspeak]

5. Would Bill blast off into space if the astronauts were Indian H-1B's?

[OhioChick]

6. Not a Chance. n/t