A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying US millionaire video game developer Richard Garriott has docked with the International Space Station.
A spokeswoman for the space control centre near Moscow said the capsule had docked automatically at 08:26 GMT. Apart from Garriott, who is paying $30 million for his 10-day journey in space, the capsule is also carrying Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and US astronaut Michael Fincke. Garriott, the son of a US astronaut, was to be welcomed onto the ISS by Sergei Volkov, whose father is a former Soviet cosmonaut. US space agency Tourist arrives at space station ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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