Nerds in Space

I guess when you are a billionaire, finding somewhere new and exciting to go on vacation gets difficult after a while. No such problem for Charles Simonyi, who as part of the original Xerox PARC team helped developed the mouse, the GUI and even laser printing, and went on to Microsoft for 11 years where he oversaw development of both MS Excel and MS Word, and played a major role in the development of Object Oriented Programming for good measure. He has invested around $25 million and booked himself a place on the International Space Station for a week starting on the 9th march, 2007.