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16-Oct-2009
Cirque du Soleil, Guy Laliberté’s Space Mission – Outer Spaceby Rob Howard |
 Guy Laliberté, French Canadian accordionist, stiltwalker, fire-eater, and founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cirque du Soleil, has just become Canada's first space tourist! Along with professional astronauts Jeff Williams and Maksim Surayev, spaceflight participant Laliberté successfully flew to the International Space Station. He reached orbit on September 30th 2009 aboard Soyuz TMA-16, and returned to Earth on October 11th aboard Soyuz TMA-14.Laliberté's flight marks the third space flight by a Canadian in the same year, after Robert Thirsk and Julie Payette. He is also the third Québécois in space, and the first accordionist. Cirque du Soleil, founded in 1984, was a become a worldwide company, with spectacular regional circus shows set to musical backgrounds. Many of the shows involve accordionists. There is a new "Celebrity Interviews" of Steve Bach, Roland accordionist at "ZAIA" show Cirque du Soleil in Macau online. Also related is a "Celebrity Interviews" in February 2009 of Las Vegas based Cirque du Soleil accordionist Hubert Gall. |