Another man in space by kristina leskova

Richard Garriot is an American multimillionaire. He is 47 years old and he fulfilled his dream to reach the space. He was born in Cambridge, England, but he grew up in Texas, where he gained American citizenship. His father is Owen Garriott, 77 years old, became an astronaut and flew with Skylab in 1973. From the childhood Richard was interested in computers and so he became game designer. He gained a nickname Lord British, because he spoke with British accent. How did the flight into the space begin? On September 27, 2007 Space Adventures announced that Richard will fly to the Space Station in October 2008 as the sixth space tourist. He paid for this trip 30 million dollars. Richard Garriott followed the steps of his father. On October 12, he reached the space. The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft carried him and two other crewmates. One of them is Mike Fincke, an American astronaut who spent six months on the international space station in 2004; another one is Russian Yuri Lonchakov. These two will stay in space station for months and their task is to enlarge the space station so, that it will be available for six persons. Richard will remain in space station only 10 days which he will spend with doing experiments. Of course, he will take some photos of the Earth. He will return on October 24, in a Soyuz capsule with two other members – cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergei Volkov. Volkov is the firs second generation traveler.

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