 The Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft blasts off from the launch pad at the cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakstan, Thursday 25, 2002. The rocketship was carrying the world's second space tourist, South African Mark Shuttleworth. |
 South African Internet tycoon Mark Shuttleworth, the world's second space tourist, waves before he blasts off in a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Thursday, April 25, 2002. Shuttleworth is paying the Russian space program dlrs 20 million for the 10 day trip. |
 South African space tourist Mark Shuttleworth blows a kiss as Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko speaks to the media, before they blasted off in a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Thursday, April 25, 2002. |
 South African Mark Shuttleworth, the world's second space tourist, is blessed prior to Soyuz TM-34 rocketship take off at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, April 25, 2002. Three astronauts including Italian Roberto Vittori and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gidzenko blasted off from Russia's Baikonur base in Kazakhstan on Thursday to the International Space Station. |
 South African space tourist Mark Shuttleworth, 29, gives the thumbs up after the press conference in the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, April 24, 2002. He told journalists that he was nervous but ready for Thursday's launch. |
 South African space tourist Mark Shuttleworth proudly shows off the Russian matryushka dolls given to him by Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori after the press conference at the cosmodrome Baikonur in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, April 24, 2002. The launch of the 10-days mission will take place Thursday at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. |
 Mark Shuttleworth, a South African Internet tycoon, speaks to Associated Press Television News during an interview at the Star City cosmonauts' training centre outside Moscow, Friday, December 7, 2001. Photo: AP |
 Mark Shuttleworth, 27, is set to become the second "space tourist" to fly to the International Space Station, arriving in a Russian Soyuz rocket in April. Photo: AP |
 Mark Shuttleworth checks his computer during an interview to Associated Press Television News at the Star City cosmonauts' training centre outside Moscow, Friday, December 7, 2001. Photo: AP |
 The International Space Station is contrasted against the cloud-covered home planet and the darkness of space in this post-undocking view. Photo: Nasa |
 Soyuz 4 Flight Participant Mark Shuttleworth, a South African businessman flying to the International Space Station under a private commercial agreement with the Russian Aviation and Space Agency, listens to briefing in the Johnson Space Centre's Space Station Training Facility. Photo: Nasa |
 Touring the Johnson Space Centre on a familiarisation tour, from left to right, are backup Soyuz 4 Commander Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, a Russian cosmonaut; Soyuz 4 Space Flight Participant Mark Shuttleworth and Soyuz 4 Flight Engineer and European Space Agency Astronaut Roberto Vittori. Photo: AP |
 A Russian Soyuz rocket, the type of craft that will take Mark Shuttleworth into space. Photo: Nasa |
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