Billionaire Turns Space Tourist
Billionaire Turns Space Tourist
AWESOME THREESOME: Canadian circus billionaire Laliberte blasted off in the Russian Soyuz spaceship from Kazakhstan on Wednesday to become the world's seventh space tourist.
In this pic: Expedition 21 flight engineers Jeffrey Williams (top) and Maxim Surae (bottom) wave farewell with spaceflight participant Guy Laliberte from the bottom of the Soyuz launch pad shortly before their launch onboard the Soyuz TMA-16 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan September 30, 2009.