A Soyuz space capsule carrying two Russians, an American and an out-of-this-world dinner headed for a docking with the international space station on Monday.The capsule is to dock with the ISS at 3:19 p.m. ET (1912 GMT), about 50 hours after it took off from Russia's manned launch facility at Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
It is carrying cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov of Russia and American software billionaire Charles Simonyi, who shelled out $20-25 million (euro 15-18.7 million) to be the world's fifth paying private space traveler. (Watch Simonyi explain his space goals )
Once the capsule docks with the station, it will take about two hours until the airlocks open and the crew can float into the space station. The arrival of a new crew is always a happy event, and in this case the pleasure may be whetted by the resident crew knowing that Simonyi is bringing them a gourmet dinner.
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