SPACE TOURIST RETURNS TO EARTH SAFELY

American Billionaire Charles Simonyi returned safely to the Russian Steppes. Having spent $25,000,000 for the trip to the International Space Station, the trip appears to have been well received by him and enjoyed fully.

With the Space Tourist the ISS crew also returned to the Earth's surface, Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and U.S. Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria. On this tour on the ISS Michael Lopez-Alegria set a U.S. record for the continous space flight by spending 215 days in orbit, he also set a record for U.S. space walks at 10 over his career.