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Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight

Posted by timothy on from the dyson-vacuum-of-space dept.

DynaSoar writes "Esther Dyson, known to many as a founding and consistently guiding member of ICANN, and for working with the startups of Flickr, del.icio.us, Medscape and others, is now expanding her interests upwards. She recently announced that she will be heading to Moscow to train as backup astronaut for Charles Simonyi, who plans to fly aboard Soyuz TMA-14 next year. The US$3 million price tag won't be her first cash contribution towards personal space flight. She's already an investor in Space Adventures, the company that arranges the space tourist flights on Soyuz."

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  1. Typical word missing by ServerIrv · · Score: 2, Informative

    Just thought I'd add fuel to the fire. Let's nitpick every singly grammatical inaccuracy contained in the article summary. Here is my contribution.

    "US$3 million price tag won't her first cash contribution"
    should be
    "US$3 million price tag won't BE her first cash contribution"