A Russian soyuz spacecraft carrying Canadian billionaire and founder of Cirque du Soleil and two other astronauts yesterday docked with the International Space Station (ISS).
Guy Laliberte,50, who is travelling as a paying "space tourist",docked with the ISS along with US astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev,a spokesman for mission control in Moscow said.
Laliberte has already entertained his fellow crow members with a soap bubble show during their two-day flight to the ISS and has vowed for further antics once aboard,including tickling his fellow astronauts while they are asleep.
The arrival of the trio has increased the ISS's crew to nine.
Laliberte is due to return to Earth on October 11 alongside Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and Michael Barratt of the US.
Lalibette is planning on October 9 to preside from the ISS over what he has called the first ever artistic mission from space which will take place in a dozen cities around the world and involve music,dancing and images.
The Cirque du Soleil,which Laliberte founded in 1984,fuses acrobatics with haunting music and has made the Quebec native the world's 261st richest man with a fortune of US$2.5 billion (Bt83 billion).
The circus founder,the seventh person to go into space as a tourist,could be the last for some time as seats will be limited aboard the Soyuz once Nasa takes its shuttles out of service from 2010.
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