Charles Simonyi Headed Back to Space in Russian Rocket

Software billionaire Charles Simonyi, the former chief architect of Microsoft who helped develop Excel and Word, is headed back to space. Space Adventures, a space tourism company based in Virginia, says Simonyi will travel to space next year on a Russian rocket–making him the first private traveler to make two trips.

Simonyi spent $25 million on a 13-day trip in April, 2007; the cost of this trip has not been disclosed.

Andy interviewed Simonyi about the future of software development at at last year’s MIT Technology Review EmTech conference. I re-posted the interview here.

—Kelsey Blodget, Associate Producer

By Beet TV on October 1, 2008 @

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