Owen Garriott, pictured in the red jacket at left, thanked Russian space officials and contractors for his son Richard's safe arrival this morning at the International Space Station."We look forward to a completion in another 10 days," said Garriott, a veteran of Spacelab and shuttle missions.
He spoke at a Russian Federal Space Agency news conference outside Moscow where officials celebrated this morning's successful docking of the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft as a demonstration of the nation's "excellent technical capability."
Garriott was seated next to former cosmonaut Alexander Volkov, whose son Sergei was already aboard the station.
The meeting on station between cosmonaut Sergei Volkov and space tourist Richard Garriott, a video game designer who reportedly paid more than $30 million for the flight, will be the first in orbit by two second-generation space travellers.
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