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On a mission to tell of his unforgettable trip
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November 29, 2005Kansas City Star
Space travel was never the plan until one day in June 2003, just four months after the Columbia space shuttle accident killed seven astronauts. Sitting at a Starbucks cafe in Princeton, N.J., near his home, Olsen read a newspaper article about Space Adventures, a company in Arlington, Va., that had sent two customers into space. He called the company that day. He went to the former Soviet Union a few months later to watch a Soyuz launch, and made his decision.