01.10.09: “Bozo” in Space?
October 1, 2009 by David Dickinson
Filed under Astro News, Astro News & Commentary
Yesterday’s early AM TMA-16 Soyuz launch out of the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carried a very unusual passenger. Guy Laliberte, Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Cirque du Soleil, blasted off 3:30 AM EDT with cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and US astronaut Jeffery Williams for an eventual docking on Friday. Laliberte paid a reputed 35$ million dollars [...]
