28/ 09/ 2007

MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. computer game developer Richard Garriott will become the sixth tourist to travel into space, Space Adventures announced on Friday.

The British-born developer of the Ultima computer game series, whose father is former NASA astronaut [color=red]Owen K. Garriott, will be taken to the International Space Station on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2008[/color], the company said.

U.S.-based Space Adventures Ltd., the only company currently providing opportunities for space tourism, charges around $20 million per Russian-organized private trip.

Dennis Tito, an American businessman and former NASA scientist, became the first space tourist when he visited the ISS in 2001.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070928/81580127.html

Richard Allen Garriott (born July 4, 1961), also known as Lord British in Ultima Online and General British in Tabula Rasa, is a significant figure in the video game industry. He was originally a game designer and programmer, but now engages in various aspects of computer game development. He is scheduled to fly as spaceflight participant to the International Space Station in fall 2008.

Garriott was born in Cambridge, England and raised in Nassau Bay Texas, a son of Skylab and Spacelab astronaut Owen K. Garriott.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott

Director of the Russian Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS)
Anatoly Perminov

http://www.roscosmos.ru/index.asp?Lang=ENG