Microsoft billionaire, cosmonauts, black cat launch to space

Recorded by http://collectSPACE.com/ — The Source for Space History and Artifacts. Video courtesy NASA.Two cosmonauts and an American space tourist launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 7 on-board Soyuz TMA-10. Oleg Kotov and Fyodor Yurchikhin, joined by Charles Simonyi will dock with the International Space Station on April 9, where Yurchikhin will take over command from U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria. Kotov will replace cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin as flight engineer while serving alongside Sunita Williams to comprise the Expedition 15 crew. Simonyi, a former Microsoft executive, will stay on the ISS for 10 days before returning to Earth with Tyurin and Lopez-Alegria aboard Soyuz TMA-9, landing April 20.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: April 7, 2007 at 7:09 pm
Author: collectspace

Length: 10:00
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Tags: black cat International launch Microsoft Simonyi Soyuz space Station TMA-10 tourist

Video Comments

nakazatoGTR (October 6, 2008 at 6:18 am)

and the cat needs a mouse.imagine, tom and jerry in ISS.

LOLDISNEYLAND (September 21, 2008 at 2:42 am)

They need a real space cat. A resident ISS cat. Charles Simonyi, the first nerd in space. EPIC WIN.

devel155 (June 27, 2008 at 4:18 am)

Go space cat! :)

shelle1even (June 9, 2008 at 5:01 am)

Watch the black cat teddy hanging for the clear effects of zero gravity as they climb into space!

starlionblue (April 19, 2008 at 3:45 am)

Not only is the Soyuz system very reliable, NASA has spoken a few times about the possibility of using a very similar system after the space shuttle is retired.

salatcs (November 5, 2007 at 9:04 pm)

I'm a hungarian, so i have the different opinion than mikesomov. And I think, I'm not alone in the middle europe. They destroyed/ stole /killed/tormented in this place the past 40 years.

mikesomov (July 2, 2007 at 10:20 am)

Thank you! I agree, I would not go to space but shuttle because it is not reliable. Shuttles look cool but after two explosions ii is scary. They stop using shuttles after 2010 and will built rockets like Russian because it is the safest and cheapest way to go to the space. In case of shuttle it is obvious that something may break off when the whole big ship comes back through the atmosphere at such high speed.

heathirving (July 2, 2007 at 9:53 am)

im with you mikesomov,i have been a space and rocket enthusiast for about 10 yesr and the soyuz is the most reliable in the world,over 1700 flight and only a hand full of failures,the reason why they use russian rockets is because they are scared shitless of the shuttle!

mikesomov (April 22, 2007 at 7:21 pm)

I would like some hackers to damage that site for a little bit. I went to USA twice and there are a lot of good people but there are still some rednecks and morons.I wanna see London, my mom was there and she said it was great and awesome! Take care man

wuzzlevideos (April 22, 2007 at 5:59 pm)

I'm from the United Kingdom. Not AmericaI was simply saying that it wasnt a choice Simonyi could make. The only people that do space tourism are the Russians, so that's the only people he could ask. It sounded like you were cheerleading for Russia. People know the Russians are very good at spaceflight, that is not in question. But to say that he chose to go with Russia is completely incorrect.