Space Tourist's Send-Off Includes Meal From Stewart

Apr 07, 10:40 AM

Current Headlines: 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 Friday to the bleak space town of Baikonur, Kazakhstan, 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.

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

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