Geeks in Space!
Oct. 27th, 2006 03:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgund'Nerd' outlines space ambitions (BBC)
Mr Simonyi hopes the whole trip will accomplish a number of things.
"I have three goals," he said. "One of them is to advance civilian spaceflight, the second to assist space station research and the third to involve kids in space sciences."
He has started a website, charlesinspace.com, aimed at promoting his aims.
Dr Simonyi also plans to start a library on the ISS, leaving copies of science fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Henlein and Goethe's Faust."
Mr Simonyi hopes the whole trip will accomplish a number of things.
"I have three goals," he said. "One of them is to advance civilian spaceflight, the second to assist space station research and the third to involve kids in space sciences."
He has started a website, charlesinspace.com, aimed at promoting his aims.
Dr Simonyi also plans to start a library on the ISS, leaving copies of science fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Henlein and Goethe's Faust."
