Canadian billionaire space tourist Guy Laliberte has entertained his fellow space travellers with a soap bubble show during their first day in orbit, a Russian space scientist said Thursday.
Laliberte "has brought a special charm to the atmosphere aboard the ship," said Valery Bogomolov, deputy head of the Institute of Medical-Biological Problems, which monitors the health of cosmonauts in orbit.
"Yesterday the cosmonauts, on the initiative of Mr Laliberte, organised some sort of unusual show involving soap bubbles," he added, quoted by the Interfax news agency.
Laliberte, the founder of the popular Cirque du Soleil show, blasted off on Wednesday from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan along with US astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev.
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the three space travelers is due to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday at 0835 GMT.
A former fire-eater and stiltwalker, Laliberte is the seventh person to spend millions of dollars from a personal fortune to go into space.
He has vowed to take his "sense of humour" into space, threatened to tickle his fellow space travelers and plans to stage an artistic event which will take place in a dozen cities around the world and involve music, dancing and images.
Laliberte is due to return to earth on October 11.
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