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Science Lord British takes crowning step onto space station
Science Lord British takes crowning step onto space station | Lord British takes crowning step onto space station |
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| by William Atkins | |
| Wednesday, 15 October 2008 | |
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Science DiscussionsGarriott paid the Russian government an estimated $30 million for a trip on the Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft and a 10-day stay at the world's most expensive hotel, the International Space Station. With Garriott and two professional astronauts onboard, the Soyuz spacecraft lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz-FG rocket lifted the spacecraft and crew at 0701 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), 3:01 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), on Sunday, October 12, 2008. A little over two days later, the spacecraft docked to the ISS at 0838 UTC, 4:38 a.m. EDT, on Tuesday, October 14, 2008. The Soyuz spacecraft carried spaceflight participant Garriott, along with his entourage of NASA astronaut and ISS Expedition 18 commander Edward Michael “Mike” Fincke and Russian cosmonaut and ISS Expedition 18 flight engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov. Lonchakov exclaimed as the docking was accomplished, "We have capture!" [Space.com: "New Crew, Space Tourist Arrive at Space Station"] For more information on Lord British and his dad, a former NASA astronaut, please read page two. |
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