Richard_Garriott - UPI POY 2008 - News and Features

UPI POY 2008 - News and Features

The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American Spaceflight Participant Richard Garriott, launches, on October 12, 2008, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The three crew members are scheduled to dock with the International Space Station on Oct. 14. (UPI Photo/NASA/Bill Ingalls)


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MERRITT ISLAND, Fla., June 22 (UPI) -- The New York couple who became the first to marry in zero gravity said the high altitude ceremony was "beautiful."
Expedition 17 crew returns from space
HOUSTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- NASA said space traveler Richard Garriott and two members of the Expedition 17th crew have returned safely from the International Space Station.
Garriott's rocket docks with space station
HOUSTON, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- NASA officials say a Russian spacecraft carrying video mogul Richard Garriott and two other flyers docked Tuesday with the International Space Station.
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- The son of a U.S. astronaut blasted off Sunday from Kazakhstan as a tourist aboard a Russian rocket headed for the International Space Station.
ZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- An Austin, Texas, man in Kazakhstan is set to become the world's sixth space tourist and the first second-generation space traveler from the United States.
Colbert digital DNA headed for space
NEW YORK, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. news-parody show host Stephen Colbert is having his DNA digitized and sent to the International Space Station, Comedy Central announced Monday.
MOSCOW, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- The two latest "space tourists" began training to accompany Russian cosmonauts on their mission to the International Space Station.
MOSCOW, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- U.S. video game developer Richard Garriott is paying $25 million to become the sixth space tourist to spend a few days on the International Space Station.
AUSTIN, Texas, July 30 (UPI) -- The University of Texas at Austin announced a partnership with several video-game designers to help establish the UT Videogame Archive.
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