U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams (L), Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte (C) and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev answer questions in front of a monument of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, before their departure to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at the Star City space centre outside Moscow, September 17, 2009. Laliberte, who owns Cirque du Soleil, is set to become the world's seventh, and Canada's first space tourist slated to travel on a Russian Soyuz space craft to the International Space Station at the end of September.
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