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Charles Simonyi to Become World's First Repeat Space Tourist [Space Cadet]

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2008-10-01 02:00:11 by Elaine Chow in Gizmodo
...Simonyi is now training for a second trip to the International Space Station in Spring 2009. Simonyi will be the first repeat Space Adventures customer since the company began sending private citizens into the final frontier in 2001 The last time he went (in 2007), Simonyi paid roughly $20 million to participate in a lower back muscle study,...
 
Tags: international space station, simonyi, station, time, camera components, radiation environment, astronautic experience, million, final frontier
 
 
 
 
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Gates and space-ace Simonyi gift $30m for giant telescope

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2008-01-06 04:05:00 by posted by Pantha in
...Simonyi, have donated a cool $30m to a project that aims to build "the world's largest survey telescope" (cleverly) called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. On Thursday, the group said that Gates and Simonyi had donated $10m and $20m respectively to help develop the telescope, which Gates says "is truly an Internet telescope, which will...
 
Tags: telescope, synoptic survey telescope, 4-meter telescope, internet telescope, simonyi, survey telescope, charles simonyi, refractive lenses, terrestrial bill
 
 
 
 
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Gates and space-ace Simonyi gift $30m for giant telescope

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2008-01-05 23:05:00 by Christopher Grant in Engadget
...Simonyi, have donated a cool $30m to a project that aims to build "the world's largest survey telescope" (cleverly) called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. On Thursday, the group said that Gates and Simonyi had donated $10m and $20m respectively to help develop the telescope, which Gates says "is truly an Internet telescope, which will...
 
Tags: telescope, synoptic survey telescope, 4-meter telescope, internet telescope, simonyi, survey telescope, charles simonyi, refractive lenses, terrestrial bill
 
 
 
 
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Bill Gates and Simonyi donates millions for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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2008-01-04 10:57:10 by HASH0x89ec984 in Fareastgizmos.com
Simonyi is donating $20 million and Bill Gates $10 million to pay for three major mirrors that will be used in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a nearly $400 million project that will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights - something never done before. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is to be built on 9,000-foot Cerro...
 
Tags: survey, synoptic survey telescope, telescope, internet telescope, million, million project, telescope imaginative, powerful digital device, 000-foot cerro pachon
 
 
 
 
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Bill Gates and Simonyi donate millions for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

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2008-01-05 07:52:42 by HASH0x8a1fc50 in Newlaunches.com
Simonyi is donating $20 million and Bill Gates $10 million to pay for three major mirrors that will be used in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a nearly $400 million project that will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights - something never done before. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope is to be built on 9,000-foot Cerro...
 
Tags: survey, synoptic survey telescope, telescope, internet telescope, million, million project, telescope imaginative, powerful digital device, 000-foot cerro pachon
 
 
 
 
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Space Is The Next Frontier for Esther Dyson

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2008-10-25 12:38:51 by Priya Ganapati in Gadget Lab
...Simonyi and video games developer Richard Garriott, Silicon Valley luminary Esther Dyson is the latest to start training for a space flight Dyson who is an investor in Space Adventures, a company that aims to open space flight for private citizens, will not be flying anytime soon but will be training as a backup for Simonyi who will be...
 
Tags: space, space travel, space tourist, international space station, space adventures, space flight, dyson, flight, conference
 
 
 
 
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Bill Gates' Made Men: The Wild 'n' Crazy Ventures of the Microsoft Millionaires [Bill Gates Retirement Party]

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2008-06-26 11:00:00 by Dan Nosowitz in Gizmodo
...Simonyi Current Job: Space Tourist, Philanthropist Years at Microsoft: 21 Position: Developer, Project Leader The Hungarian-born developer Charles Simonyi oversaw the development of two of Microsoft's most profitable products, Word and Excel; started a successful intentional programming firm called Intentional Software; embarked on a ten-day...
 
Tags: microsoft, millionaires, microsoft minions, millions, microsoft millions, microsoft earnings, microsoft employees, favorite microsoft millionaires, post-microsoft job
 
 
 
 
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Esther Dyson becomes a cosmonaut

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2008-10-16 08:23:48 by Kevin Hall in DVICE
...Simonyi also took a ten day voyage into the vacuum with Space Adventures it's becoming a regular geek fest in orbit (and I'm jealous). Esther Dyson has been accepted by Space Adventures as Simonyi's backup. That means she'll go through all the training as the rest of the crew and actually end up as a certified cosmonaut. If anything should...
 
Tags: space adventures, esther dyson, cosmonaut, soyuz crew, flight school blog, hungarian software developer, regular geek fest, international space station, crew
 
 
 
 
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Lord British in Star City

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2008-08-21 11:20:52 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...Simonyi says. "But what if you are kind of normal The whole thing is incredible... from Garriott's dashed dreams of following his astronaut father into space. to the loss of his first chance at a flight into space when the tech bubble burst, to his training at Star City and eventual acceptance among the vodka-swigging Russian cosmonauts. An...
 
Tags: star city, effete space tourist, space, aka star city, lord british, garriott, wired, russia wired, richard garriott aka