International Space Station

The spacecraft Soyuz which blasted off on Sunday from Khazakstan was already on International Space Station (ISS). The Soyuz crew consists of 5 people and multi-millionaire spaceflight participant Richard Garriott boarded the ISS at 4:38 a.m. EDT.

Richard Garriott whose father was a former astronaut Owen Garriott was welcomed by cosmonaut Sergei Volkov, whose father is also a veteran of the Russia space program.

Garriot who shed a huge portion of his money will stay on the facility until October 24. He will gather photos and information for his sponsors who made the $30M space odyssey possible. He will be returing home with Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, who have been in the ISS since April.

The International Space Station (ISS) is a research facility being assembled in space. Its on-orbit assembly began in 1998. The space station is in a low Earth orbit and can be seen from Earth with the naked eye: it has an altitude of about 350 km (217 mi)[1] above the surface of the Earth, and travels at an average speed of 27,700 km (17,210 statute miles) per hour, completing 15.77 orbits per day. (Source: Wikipedia)