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News Source: The Examiner
| 2 months ago
An American computer game designer reached space Sunday, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream that began with the flight of his astronaut father...Garriott, a 47-year-old multimillionaire from Austin, Texas, is the sixth paying space traveler...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 2 months ago
An American computer game designer boarded the international space station Tuesday, floating onto the orbital outpost 35 years after his astronaut father circled the Earth on Skylab. Richard Garriott was greeted by another man who has turned space...
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News Source: Houston Chronicle
| 2 months ago
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts, including Austin space tourist Richard Garriott, successfully docked with the international space station early today...Mike Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov, who will take over as the...
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News Source: USA Today
| 2 months ago
Kazakhstan (AP) A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and a Russian on board lifted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for the international space station. The Soyuz TMA-13 capsule carrying American computer game millionaire Richard Garriott soared...
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News Source: Taiwan News
| 2 months ago
The spacecraft was on course to dock with the 220-mile-high orbital outpost on Tuesday, shortly before 4 a.m. Skylab astronaut Owen Garriott, paid the Russian space agency $30 million to become the world's sixth space tourist since 2001. "I am so...
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News Source: France 24
| 2 months ago
A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying US millionaire video game guru Richard Garriott, the world's sixth space tourist, successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday. "The docking took place at 12:32 Moscow time (0832 GMT)...
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News Source: News 24
| 2 months ago
The sons of a Russian cosmonaut and a United States astronaut met in space on Tuesday when spaceman Sergei Volkov welcomed American Richard Garriott on board the International Space Station. Garriott, a computer game developer who paid $35-million...
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News Source: Fox News
| 2 months ago
Garriott, 47, paid a reported US$30 million to fulfill his childhood dream of space travel and is to spend 10 days on the station. "Hi, Peter Pan," his girlfriend, Kelly Miller, said during the video link. Garriott chuckled and said, "I can fly." "...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 2 months ago
With the completion of the docking, the astronauts from the Soyuz capsule are expected to open a hatch and enter the ISS at around 2:00pm, Russian news agencies quoted officials as saying. Apart from Mr Garriott, who is paying $US30 million for his...
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News Source: CNN
| 2 months ago
Space tourist Richard Garriott has arrived at the International Space Station for a 10-day stay for which he paid the Russian government an estimated $30 million. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which docked with the space station at 4:38 a.m...The...