Fourth US Civilian Space Traveler

The fifth civilian to visit the International Space Station will accompany the station's Expedition 15 crew into space Saturday, April 7. A client of Vienna, Virginia-based Space Adventures Ltd, Simonyi, 58, will be the third passenger aboard the Soyuz TMA-10 "taxi mission" that will carry Expedition 15 Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin, RN3FI, and Oleg Kotov, to the ISS. Simonyi will pay an estimated $25 million for the privilege of spending eight days in space. More

(Source: The Amateur Radio Relay League - ARRL - Apr 6)