US millionaire ready for space trip

Updated: 2005-10-01 11:41

Spacecraft Soyuz TMA-7 with the ISS crew of U.S. space tourist Gregory Olsen, astronaut William McArthur of the U.S. and cosmonaut Valery Tokarev is set on a launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan pre-dawn October 1, 2005. [Reuters]

U.S. space tourist Gregory Olsen (L) points at his relatives to cosmonaut Valery Tokarev of Russia after donning his space suit at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 1, 2005. Olsen, founder and owner of Sensors Unlimited in Princeton, New Jersey, will become the third tourist to visit the space station. [Reuters]

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