Bill Gates off to Space

According to a Russian cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station, Bill Gates could be planning a trip to space sometime in the near future. Fyodor Yurchikhin, currently hosting former Microsoft engineer Charles Simonyi on the station, is claiming his present guest has told him Gates is also preparing to go to space, possibly on one of the $25 million trips to the space station provided by Space Adventures - although Microsoft officials are yet to comment on whether their chairman is arranging to leave the planet any time soon. Gates, who is the world's richest man with an estimated $56 billion, has never been best known for high-risk endeavours, but perhaps he needs a new 'Wow' in his life now that Vista has been released?