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06-24-2009, 02:23 PM
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Location: Universal City, Texas
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Thirty-five years after NASA astronaut Owen Garriott first flew into space, his son Richard, a successful video-game designer, followed suit as a private citizen. The younger Garriott brokered a deal through the firm Space Adventures to pay the Russian Federal Space Agency about $30 million for a ride aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station last October. Below are Richard and Owen Garriotts' thoughts and experiences on private space flight and scientific research aboard the International Space Station.
For more of story:
Owen Garriott and Son Talk Private Space Flight, Experiments in Space - Astronauts, Cosmonauts and Science in Space - Popular Mechanics
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