The first version of Microsoft Word was developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, former Xerox programmers hired by Microsoft Co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1981 Microsoft. Pic/AFP ...

Software billionaire Charles Simonyi, the fifth private traveller or "space tourist" to visit the International Space Station, is poised to become the first to make a return trip. Vienna, Va ...

The first time just wasn't enough, so billionaire Charles Simonyi is going back to space. The first two-time space tourist is set to make his second trip to the international space station next week.

A former Microsoft Corp. executive is back on Earth today after wrapping up his second visit to the International Space Station.. Charles Simonyi, who helped develop both Microsoft Word and Excel ...

Billionaire Charles Simonyi wakes up before dawn, ready to build a tent in sub-zero temperatures, hover weightless in a plane or, worse, conjugate Russian verbs -- all to prepare for his 11-day ...

At left, tech leader Charles Simonyi with mathematical physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey. The two were at Simonyi's home on ...

WASHINGTON —American billionaire Charles Simonyi, ... Thecompany's sixth customer, Richard Garriott, son of NASA astronaut OwenGarriott, is scheduledto launch to the space station Oct. 12.