My training to become a space tourist

Inside were the three crew members I had lived with nonstop for the last couple of weeks in Baikonur Cosmodrome. The photo was taken by my brother, who came along for the occasion with my father and stepmother. Interestingly, my father, astrophysicist Freeman Dyson, had never seen a launch before. Although he had been invited to many NASA launches over the years, they all ended up being rescheduled.

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