American space tourist blasts off
A Russian spacecraft, with two Americans and a Russian on board, lifted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday.
One of the American's is computer game millionaire Richard Garriott.
The Soyuz spacecraft is headed for the international space station, where Garriott will spend about 10 days conducting experiments — including some whose sponsors helped fund his trip — and photographing Earth to measure changes since his father snapped pictures from the U.S. station Skylab in 1973.
Garriott, could not become a NASA astronaut because of his poor eyesight. He paid a reported $30 million for his voyage.
You can watch the launch in the following video:
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