A Microsoft employee beat Jeff Bezos to space by a huge margin

[Windows Central]

2007 called, it wants its space tourism attention back.

You've likely heard about Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson going head-to-head to see who could tickle the very edge of Earth's atmosphere first. But have you heard about the Microsoft employee who traveled to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2007 and 2009? Space tourism's been around for a while, and when it comes to actually penetrating that big black void up there, Bezos and Branson have yet to come close to what Charles Simonyi achieved almost a decade and a half ago.

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