Bill Gates To Be The Next Billionaire In Space?

April 16th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

According to Engadget a Russian cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station claims that Microsoft founder Bill Gates is planning on spending a few million to be the next Billionaire to take a trip up into Space.

If Bill does splash out the £25m for the trip he will be joining fellow Microsoft Billionaire Charles Simonyi, 58, who led development of Microsoft’s Word, lifted off from the Baikonur space station earlier this month.

I would love to be able to travel into space. When I was younger I was deadly serious about becoming an Astronaut. I had even found a good relevant university course. Although I managed to get into my first choice University, Cambridge, to read Maths (I switched to Economics in the first term) my insurance offer was Physics with Space Science at University College London!

Maybe in 20 years time I’ll be able to sell Connected Internet for a tidy sum which will finance my trip into space.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Pingback by Should Google Licence It’s Search Engine Technology For Internal Search Engines? | Connected Internet on 16 April 2007:

    [...] instance for the post I just made about Bill Gates in space I couldn’t find the story I read on the BBC earlier this month about Billionaire Charles [...]

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    Comment by Vinod @ VinodLive! on 16 April 2007:

    Good Luck on your cosmic plans Everton!

    Btw, I don’t think Space Travel for civilians is not worth ATM considering the risk involved - let alone the money.

  3. #3

    Comment by Vinod @ VinodLive! on 16 April 2007:

    Sorry for the double post!. Forgot to tell that, My all time techie-civilian-space champion would remain Mark Shuttleworth - The Ubuntu Founder.

  4. #4

    Comment by Everton on 16 April 2007:

    I don’t think Space Travel for civilians is not worth ATM

    That’s got to be the statement of the month! I agree that £25m is a lot of money. what would you consider ‘good value’? £10m?? lol

  5. #5

    Comment by Vinod @ VinodLive! on 16 April 2007:

    that was supposed to be:-
    “I think Space Travel for civilians is not worth ATM” ;)

  6. #6

    Comment by Robert on 15 June 2007:

    In the space I don’t know, but if he stopped being the rich man but?
    Why not?

    http://www.withyouitspossible.com

    Good luck boy ;-)

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