Canadian circus tycoon makes journey into space

September 30 2009

The 50-year-old former fire-breather and founder of the Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil gave the thumbs-up after the Soyuz TMA-16 spaceship blasted into clear blue skies in a faultless launch at 0714 GMT (3:14 a.m. EDT) from the Baikonur cosmodrome on the Kazakh steppe.

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