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$25m for this?

Cosmonaut foodCosmodrome sinkMartha Stewart at launchpadMartha Stewart was at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to see her friend, Charles Simonyi, off on his jaunt into space. The Microsoft billionaire, who ran the development teams for Word and Excel, paid $25m for a ride into orbit on the Russian Soyuz craft. While the neat-freak homemaking guru was at the Russian space center, one trusts she gave a brisk lecture on cooking and cleanliness. Pictured, some cosmonaut food, and a sink in the bunker. [Photos by Esther Dyson].

1:23 PM on Mon Apr 9 2007
By Nick Denton
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