Martha Stewart's Latest Dish for Friend is Out of This World

Apr 07, 07:30 AM

Current Headlines: By MARIA DANILOVA

By MARIA DANILOVA

the Associated Press

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Martha Stewart is sending gracious living into orbit, picking a gourmet space meal of duck breast confit and semolina cake with dried apricots for her billionaire space tourist "best friend" and his comrades in the international space station.

Stewart came to the space town of Baikonur on Friday to say goodbye to Charles Simonyi, a software engineer and developer of Microsoft Word who paid between $20 million and $25 million for a 13- day trip to the space station. Stewart and Simonyi have been friends for about a decade.

Simonyi, one of the 400 richest Americans according to Forbes m agazine, is to lift off today aboard a Soyuz space capsule with two Russian cosmonauts.

The founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc., a multimedia empire dedicated to stylish living, Stewart ranks third on Forbes.com's list of "The 20 Richest Women in Entertainment," with assets of $638 million.

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