US ex-astronaut's son to be next space tourist
September 23rd, 2008 in Space & Earth / Space Exploration
U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott seen before the final test in a mock-up of a Soyuz TMA space craft in Star City outside Moscow on Friday, Sept. 19, 2008. U.S. space tourist Richard Garriott, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov, and U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke are scheduled to start for the International Space Station on Oct. 12. (AP Photo/ Mikhail Metzel)
(AP) -- As a computer game designer, he's made millions creating fantasy worlds. Now, Richard Garriott will live out his own fantasy of spaceflight. Garriott, 47, will become the first child of a U.S. astronaut to travel to space when he takes his $30 million seat aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule set to lift off Oct. 12 for the international space station.
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