Simonyi Arrives At the ISS After Shuttle Lands 66
RobGoldsmith writes in with news of the further adventures of Charles Simonyi, whose first trip to the ISS we discussed a couple of years ago. The Russian Soyuz vehicle carrying Simonyi and two others docked a day after the US space shuttle Discovery landed in Florida. "Space Adventures, Ltd. ... announced today that its orbital client Charles Simonyi and his crew successfully arrived at the International Space Station after launching on-board the Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 26. The spacecraft docked to the ISS at 9:05 am (EDT) with Dr. Simonyi and Expedition 19 crew members Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and NASA astronaut Michael Barratt. They were greeted at approximately 12:30 p.m. (EDT) by the Expedition 18 crew..."
You go to space once, that's cool (Score:5, Funny)
Going twice? Now you're just showing off.
Re:In other news... (Score:2, Funny)
Space greeting (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Amateur Radio (Score:5, Funny)
If you don't think that talking with a millionaire software developer on an orbiting space station using a home-built radio transmitter is cool, you're probably reading the wrong website.
Re:Amateur Radio (Score:3, Funny)
Plus, you'd be talking to fucking astronauts!
Wait what? Who will he be having sex with? and why would he be talking on the ham radio during sex
?
That would just be wierd.
Re:Amateur Radio (Score:3, Funny)
If you don't think that talking with a millionaire software developer on an orbiting space station using a home-built radio transmitter is cool, you're probably reading the wrong website.
Also if you do think it's cool, you're STILL probably reading the wrong website. Slashdot ain't what it use to be.
Just face facts. You're reading the wrong website, and your mother smells like sausage, and your dog wants to bite you, and your girlfriend is just using you for the money.