[TWIAR] Kin of ex-NASA astronaut to travel in space

[Greg Williams]

[Owen Garriott was the first astronaut to make a ham radio contact from 
space during the SAREX project - Greg]

Kin of ex-NASA astronaut to travel in space
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200709300339.htm

Moscow, Sept. 30 (PTI): Son of former NASA astronaut, Owen K Garriott, 
will travel into space on board the Russian segment of International 
Space Station (ISS).

UK-born, Richard Garriott, developer of the Ultima computer game series, 
will be the sixth tourist to travel to the ISS on board a Russian Soyuz 
spacecraft for a week-long space venture holiday in 2008.

He had bought a voucher of US$ 20 million from a US-based space tourism 
agent involved in global marketing for the Russian Space Agency, 
according to RIA Novosti.

Dennis Tito, an American businessman and former NASA scientist was the 
first space tourist who visited the ISS in 2001.

Tito was followed by South African IT millionaire Mark Shuttleworth 
(2002), Gregory Olsen, a US entrepreneur-cum-scientist in 2005, Anousheh 
Ansari (40), an American citizen of Iranian origin and a 
telecommunications businesswoman in 2006 and Charles Simonyi (58), a US 
citizen of Hungarian descent who had a key role in developing MS Word 
and Excel applications in 2007.

Meanwhile, Russia has said that the price for commercial space flights 
would go up from US$ 20 million to US$ 25 million.

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Gregory S. Williams
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