A 58-year-old software engineer is set to become the fifth ever space tourist when he blasts off on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft this Saturday.

Billionaire Charles Simonyi, who led development of Microsoft's Word, will lift off from Kazakhstan at 1731 GMT. ( Sat 7th Apr 2oo7 )

The $20m ride will make him the 450th person to enter orbit and by his own admission "the first nerd in space".

page: http://charlesinspace.com/ ( incl live coverage, neviem, v akom rozsahu )