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Train for the space trip

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-03-14 09:15

Hungary-born Charles Simonyi of the U.S., a former software developer at Microsoft, floats in an inflatable rescue suit during a practice emulating capsule ditching upon return to earth, in a pool at the Star City space centre outside Moscow March 13, 2007. Simonyi is due to blast off to the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome on board a Soyuz TMA-10 rocket in spring. [Reuters]