U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams (L) and Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte gesture to friends and relatives as they depart 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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