Hungarian-born Charles Simonyi, who led the development of Microsoft's Word and Excel, will blast off onboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on 09 March 2007.
"Learning about the systems is part of my engineering curiosity and makes the whole experience so much more interesting when I understand exactly what is going on and, for example, why the flight is safe."
The current joke going around is that the Russians have changed all the control labels in the capsule to the Cyrillic version of "Don't Touch" (which may or may not make it through the Tek-Tips editor) : ?????? ?? ???????!
Chip H.
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