Moscow - Texan space tourist Richard Garriott returned to firm ground Friday in a Russian Soyuz capsule that carried him and two Russian cosmonauts back from space.
The capsule with Richard Garriott, a computer games designer and son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, touched down safely around 0330 GMT at the Baikonour base on the steppes of Kazakhstan. Garriott paid 30 million dollars to follow in his father's footsteps.
After a descent from the international space station, the Soyuz TMA-12 capsule carrying a British-born space tourist Richard Garriott and two cosmonauts landed the earth safely at 0337GMT in north-central Kazakhstan.
Richard, acomputer game designer, conducted various scientific experiments during his 10-day stay on the orbiting station, for which he paid an estimated $30 million to the Russian government.
Search and recovery crews extracted Richard Garriott, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko from the capsule.
Earlier we had reported that Richard Garriott, a successful American computer game designer is about to fulfill his childhood dream to travel into the orbit. Now it won’t be wrong to say that he has fulfilled his dream, since on Sunday he reached the space along with his two crewmates, American astronaut Mike Fincke and Russian Yuri Lonchakov, after they blasted into the sky inside a Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft from the Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan.
Richard Garriott, who earned millions of dollars after he created fantasy games, always had a childhood dream to fly into space, and now he fulfilled his dream in his own way by flying into space aboard a Russian rocket.
Garriott has to take off on Sunday aboard a Soyuz rocket for the International Space Station (ISS) from the dusty steppes of Kazakhstan. He said in the Soviet-era space base, “I have been working for decades on this.”
Washington - When video game mogul Richard Garriott travels to space as a tourist aboard an October Soyuz mission, he will be following in the footsteps of his astronaut father, becoming the first "second-generation" US space traveller.
Garriott is to join US and Russian International Space Station Expedition 18 crew members on an October 12 Soyuz flight under a commercial agreement with the Russian space agency.
Moscow - Texan space tourist Richard Garriott returned to firm ground Friday in a Russian Soyuz capsule that carried him and two Russian cosmonauts back from space.
After a descent from the international space station, the Soyuz TMA-12 capsule carrying a British-born space tourist Richard Garriott and two cosmonauts landed the earth safely at 0337GMT in north-central Kazakhstan.
Earlier we had reported that Richard Garriott, a successful American computer game designer is about to fulfill his childhood dream to travel into the orbit. Now it won’t be wrong to say that he has fulfilled his dream, since on Sunday he reached the space along with his two crewmates, American astronaut Mike Fincke and Russian Yuri Lonchakov, after they blasted into the sky inside a Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft from the Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan. 
games, always had a childhood dream to fly into space, and now he fulfilled his dream in his own way by flying into space aboard a Russian rocket. 
Washington - When video game mogul Richard Garriott travels to space as a tourist aboard an October Soyuz mission, he will be following in the footsteps of his astronaut father, becoming the first "second-generation" US space traveller.
