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By Shavkat Rakhmatullayev

Baikonur, Kazakhstan (Reuters) – The Hungarian-born U.S. magnate Charles Simonyi will depart on Thursday into space aboard a Russian rocket to enter history as the first space tourist who makes the Odyssey twice.

Simonyi, who made much of his fortune developing computer software to Microsoft, take off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakh steppe at 1149 GMT after two days to join the International Space Station.

I am very happy to be standing here again and be able to report as a member of this excellent and experienced crew , Simonyi said, reading a brief report written in Russian before a state commission that approved the crew before the flight.

Simonyi, a multimillionaire who has paid a total $ 60 million for its two space travel, said that his spacesuit hanging after this trip.

I can not fly for the third time because I have just married and I have to spend time with my family, explained Simonyi, 60, during a press report prior to flight.

The tycoon she married in November with a Swedish 28 years.

Simonyi will travel to the International Space Station next to Russian Gennady Padalka and U.S. astronaut Michael Barratt. Simonyi's wife, family and close friends to observe the take off.

Simonyi is expected to return to Earth on April 7 along with Michael Fincke, commander of the U.S. current issue 18; Russian flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov.

(Report additional Olzhas Auyezov and Maria Golovnina in Almaty, Dmitry Solovyov in Moscow and Shamil Zhumatov in Baikonur; Written by Dmitry Solovyov; Published in Spanish Ricardo Figueroa)