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Space Traveler Garriott Returns To Earth After Mission To Space Station

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Monday, November 24th, 2008

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Commercial space traveler Richard Garriott, son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, returned to Earth after a mission to the International Space Station, Space Adventures, Ltd. announced. The company books commercial human space missions, such as Richard Garriott's trip. He and other crew members successfully landed in the Kazakhstan steppes, aboard the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft. The others were Expedition 17 crewmembers Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, who both spent six months aboard the ISS. Richard Garriott became the first second-generation astronaut,…

Pentagon

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