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US billionaire starts space expedition

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-04-08 08:49

A Russian Soyuz TMA-10 spacecraft, with space tourist Charles Simonyi of the U.S. and cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov of Russia, sits on a launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome few minutes before blast off April 7, 2007. [Reuters]