Bill Gates Not Planning a Space Trip Anytime Soon

Since he left his full-time role at Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) five years ago, Bill Gates has kept himself busy with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, but for anyone hoping for some more specifics of what he’s working on and what he thinks is important, Bill Gates sat down with Brad Stone over at BusinessWeek to talk about what he’s been up to and why he’s not that interested in going to space.

As a non-executive chairman, it’s easy to imagine that Gates only shows up for critical strategy sessions,...