Circus tycoon recalls 'amazing ride' in spaceCanadian billionaire space tourist Guy Laliberte spoke with wonder on Tuesday about his two-week voyage in space, calling his experience an amazing ride while admitting he had on occasion felt queasy QUEASY - An early system on the IBM 701. [Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959)]. . "Everything was an amazing ride and I would go back up there right now to do it again," Laliberte, the 50-year-old founder of circus show Cirque du Soleil Cirque du Soleil (French for "Circus of the Sun") is an entertainment empire based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and founded in Baie-Saint-Paul in 1984 by two former street performers, Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier. , told a press conference at Star City outside Moscow. Laliberte landed on Sunday after blasting off from Baikonur in the Soyuz space craft on September 30 and docking at the International Space Station (ISS ISS See Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). ). Smiling broadly, Laliberte called his trip "mission accomplished." He spoke flanked by US astronaut Michael Barratt
He spoke eloquently about landing back on earth, calling it the "ride of my lifetime." "The moment that you eject is the moment you realize there is no way back. Going down, you go through blue layers and you know you are actually back in the atmosphere. "You start to see the sparks for the first time and there's all these colours, and it's an amazing spectacle," Laliberte said at the news conference carried live on state television. He described the ascent as "more an emotional and spiritual experience of going somewhere." Laliberte admitted he felt unwell during the ascent. "It was scary. It was a new emotion, a new feeling I was going through," he said. But he said he "adapted very well" to being in space. He said his first steps in weightlessness weightlessness, the absence of any observable effects of gravitation. This condition is experienced by an observer when he and his immediate surroundings are allowed to move freely in the local gravitational field. aboard the international space station were "very, very careful," saying he was afraid of damaging equipment, but that later he was "able to play and be in a playful environment." "I had a very good time there,' Laliberte said. A former fire-eater and stilt-walker, Laliberte is the seventh person to spend millions of dollars from a personal fortune to go into space. Two days before landing, Laliberte presided over an artistic event that took place in 14 cities around the world and was designed to draw attention to water conservation. "It seems to have been a great success and I'm very pleased about that," Laliberte said. 
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