![Soyuz tour bus lifts off.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy5U1l86nVLfRICN4H7QCqC16gthxj48yI5YjFRGCLVLvdPoT9f-mEjN3tJqeGFxYn5o6mjnkWiXGerUNUSB5agfQiZDqnz6xBpQZChultEIqNu4kiZTDozMjwl-Qy971Lwfjetg/s320/Soyuz+Flight.jpg)
The first one was in April 2007 when he got to spend a whole 2 weeks in space. Did you realize that at one time 2 weeks was the maximum endurance record for human beings in space after a particularly grueling torture test on Gemini 7?
Now it's just the current record for tourism.
![Tourism](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQwPqXa0UzD5eRb5GhkeG4ccUDugbEK8lEULNbWjThBlr9ehKoPdf_x1wuAe7gvcu-d6Me9XiOVXvpOc9aYJhmzXfCJ6DQyc2IS31GOO5n9YrFr3OnmQoyactfspB7Dm0pdQ7kxw/s320/Tourist.jpg)
And his records should stand for some time since Mr. Simonyi will be the last space tourist for the forseeable future. The Space Station crew is being increased to 6 with this flight. Since the Space Shuttle is retiring soon, all the seats on Russia's Soyuz ships (which carry all the tourists) will be filled with real astronauts.
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