Space Tourist Reaches Space Station

From Discovery News Top Stories : Discovery Channel:

Gaming tycoon Owen Garriott arrives at the space station as his astronaut dad watches on. A Russian Soyuz craft carrying an American computer game designer and two crewmates docked with the International Space Station Tuesday. The TMA-13 capsule automatically latched onto the station a few minutes ahead of schedule, two days after blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Aboard the capsule was space traveler Richard Garriott, who paid a reported $30 million for a 10-day stay on the station. Garriott's father, Owen, applauded as he watched the docking from Russian Mission Control outside Moscow. "I'm pleased everything is going smoothly. It's looking great and they are starting off on a fascinating new adventure," he said. "There was not a lot of nervousness today or during the launch. We were confident it would go well," he said.

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