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October 14th, 2008

Video game millionaire docks

Posted: 05:19 AM ET

(CNN) - Space tourist Richard Garriott arrived at the International Space Station for a 10-day stay for which he paid the Russian government an estimated $30 million.

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, which docked with the space station at 4:38 ET Tuesday, carried Garriott, along with NASA astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov.

Garriott, a Texan who made a fortune in the video game industry, is the son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott.


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