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Billionaire clown boards capsule for space flight

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 09:08

The man who plans to become the first circus clown in space, and who may be among the last of the space tourists, was greeted by a raucous crowds of friends and family Wednesday as he prepared to blast off for the International Space Station. Guy Laliberte and two other astronauts were cheered outside their hotel in the Central Asian steppes by supporters, many singing songs and wearing red clown noses. As Laliberte emerged from a Baikonur Cosmodrome facility where last-minute suit pressure checks are performed, Laliberte he put on a bulbous red clown nose, blew kisses to supporters and held both hands over his heart in a mime's show of affection. Laliberte, the 50-year-old Canadian billionaire who founded Cirque du Soleil, was scheduled to lift off aboard a Soyuz spacecraft later Wednesday with Surayev and Williams for a two-day trip to the orbiting laboratory.

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