Gaia: Photos of Earth From Space Tourist Guy Laliberte
Acrobat Space Tourist Rockets Into Orbit
The Soyuz TMA-16 rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying Canadian space tourist Guy Laliberte and professional spaceflyers Jeff Williams and Maxim Suraev.
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