BAIKANUR - The world's most famous homemaker, Martha Stewart, spent Friday at a space rocket launch site in Kazakhstan, where her partner Charles Simonyi will blast off Saturday to show off his own household skills on board the International Space Station.
Simonyi, a billionaire software programmer, plans to demonstrate his cooking skills Thursday, whipping up some French culinary delights on the International Space Station to celebrate Russia's Cosmonaut Day.
"One of the dishes has a wine sauce that is very common in French cuisine. I think that the crew will be very happy to eat something different after all this time in space."
The sauce in question will not break the station's no-alcohol rule, Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin assured reporters.
Stewart, who arrived Friday, spoke with Simonyi from behind a widow to the room where he was in quarantine along with other crew members ahead of the flight.
Asked if she was worried about the mission, Stewart told AFP: "I'm not nervous. They are really well trained."
The American homemaking guru said she saw a rainbow over the launchpad, which she inspected during the day, but organizers of Simonyi's trip to space said the couple would not be getting too carried away in the Kazakh steppe.
"They are not getting engaged tomorrow," said Space Adventures spokeswoman Stacey Tearne.
04/06/2007 17:26 GMT