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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope

In January, 2008, software billionaires Charles Simonyi and Bill Gates pledged $20 million and $10 million respectively to the project.

MaSat-1

The center was tested on 31 March 2009 with the help of Charles Simonyi on board the International Space Station.

Museum of Flight

In June 2010, the museum broke ground on a $12 million new building to house a Space Shuttle it hoped to receive from NASA, named the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery.

Seattle Central Library

Other internal features include; the Microsoft Auditorium on the ground floor, the "Living Room" on the third floor (designed as a space for patrons to read), the Charles Simonyi Mixing Chamber (a version of a reference desk that provides interdisciplinary staff help for patrons who want to have questions answered or do research), and the Betty Jane Narver Reading Room on level 10 (with views of Elliott Bay).

WYSIWYG

Bravo, a document preparation program for the Alto produced at Xerox PARC by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues in 1974, is generally considered the first program to incorporate WYSIWYG technology, displaying text with formatting (e.g. with justification, fonts, and proportional spacing of characters).

Yury Lonchakov

Lonchakov returned to Earth with NASA astronaut Michael Fincke and spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi.

Károly Simonyi

He is the father of Charles Simonyi, a prominent computer-software executive who oversaw the creation of Microsoft Office.

Space Tourists

We observe for example Charles Simonyi, chief developer of Word and Excel at his space training and at his tasting of space food.

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