Fulfilling a childhood dream, legendary video game developer and third generation ham operator Richard Garriott, W5KWQ, of Austin, Texas, blasted off into space aboard a Russian rocket early Sunday morning. He becomes the first American to follow his astronaut father, Owen Garriott, W5LFL, into space.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft lifted off in perfect weather from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (a landlocked country in southern Europe) just after 2 a.m. Central time. Space officials said the Soyuz rocket reached orbit ten minutes later and will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday.
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