国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
Home / World

Space crew in for red noses, tickles

China Daily | Updated: 2009-09-30 08:50

 Space crew in for red noses, tickles

A security guard keeps watch while the Soyuz TMA-16 spacecraft is transported to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday. Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte and astronauts Jeffrey Williams and Maxim Surayev are due to blast off to the International Space Station today. Reuters

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: The man who hopes to be the first clown in space, Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, yesterday said he would tickle fellow astronauts as they sleep aboard the International Space Station.

But the impish billionaire says his $35 million excursion into orbit will have a more serious purpose: promoting awareness of the world's growing shortage of clean water.

Laliberte and two astronauts spoke with reporters as they prepared for today's launch in Kazakhstan aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket, appearing behind a glass barrier to limit exposure to disease.

The trip from the Baikonur launch facility to the orbiting laboratory is to take two days.

Space crew in for red noses, tickles

The 50-year-old Canadian tycoon plans a global broadcast from the space station on October 9 to promote his One Drop Foundation, which seeks to raise awareness of the threat to global water supplies.

The performance - a poem - will be read to the population on Earth in 14 different cities, across five continents, Laliberte said.

"I'll start with the simple idea of reading a poem, which will involve characters like the sun, the moon and a drop of water," he said. "Those characters will then engage in a discussion, which will take the form of a little poetic story that we will read to the population of earth."

Laliberte told reporters he had been tickling his fellow astronauts during training, and planned to tickle them in their sleep aboard the space station.

He has promised to bring each crew member of the Station a clown nose to wear, but plans to take two along for himself: one red, one yellow - "the yellow one I will wear when I am a little grumpy, and the red one I will wear when I am happy and joyful".

"I'm going there with my sense of humor and my belief that even if sometimes in life we have to do hard work, there is always room to keep humor present," he said.

Not all fun and games

Astronauts Maxim Surayev of Russia and American Jeffrey Williams will be crammed into the Soyuz capsule with Laliberte for the launch.

Laliberte's stay on the space station is scheduled to last nine days. Surayev and Williams are due to remain until March, and Williams will take over as commander of the orbiting lab in November.

The coming months will be busy, Surayev said, with the planned arrival of three delivery craft and two US shuttles, as well as around 50 experiments planned.

Recent missions have expanded the space station's capacity, allowing for a permanent population of six. Departure of the current occupants over the next few months, however, will leave Surayev and Williams as the only crew for around three weeks at the end of this year.

"It's a huge station, we're probably going to be losing each other all the time," Williams joked.

AP

(China Daily 09/30/2009 page10)

Today's Top News

Editor's picks

Most Viewed

Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
连云港市| 美姑县| 太原市| 伊金霍洛旗| 华池县| 特克斯县| 太保市| 赫章县| 武汉市| 修水县| 突泉县| 台北市| 珠海市| 北宁市| 红原县| 哈尔滨市| 汉中市| 泰顺县| 广河县| 康定县| 辽宁省| 潞西市| 丹阳市| 凤冈县| 图们市| 西昌市| 丰镇市| 罗田县| 玛沁县| 信丰县| 北宁市| 大安市| 咸丰县| 湄潭县| 平谷区| 嘉兴市| 山东省| 洪雅县| 白河县| 崇礼县| 集安市|