Space Tourist Back From Trip to Station
A Russian Soyuz craft carrying the world’s second space tourist, an Internet businessman who paid a reported $20 million for the trip, returned to Earth today.
South African Mark Shuttleworth, 28, and two other crew members touched down on the Kazakhstan steppe after an eight-day stay aboard the International Space Station, Mission Control near Moscow reported.
Shuttleworth is the second man, after Southern California businessman Dennis Tito, to have paid the Russians for a trip to the space station. As souvenirs of his trip, Shuttleworth has purchased the Soyuz capsule and his space suit.
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