(((They always said that the "great Texan novel"
was about fathers, sons and the land. Or, in this case, the cosmos.)))
Link: [Son to follow father's footsteps in space
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Son to follow father's footsteps in space
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Son to follow father's footsteps in space
Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:51pm EDTBy Irene Klotz
"CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - If aspiring space tourist Richard Garriott wants advice on living in orbit, he can ask his father, a former NASA astronaut who spent two months aboard the first U.S. space station 24 years ago.
"The Vienna, Virginia-based firm Space Adventures announced on Friday that it had arranged a trip for Garriott, who is the company's largest investor as well as a noted computer game developer, to the International Space Station in October 2008. The company has arranged five previous flights to the station for adventure-seeking entrepreneurs.
"I think everyone has the fantasy or the desire to travel in space," said Garriott, 46, whose family lived in the Houston area near NASA. "But for me, I grew up in an environment where not only was my dad actually going to space but both of my next-door neighbors were astronauts, the guy behind me over the fence was an astronaut. Basically, the whole neighborhood was either astronauts or engineers in support of NASA.
"I just sort of assumed that one day we would all be going to space," said Garriott, who is paying about $30 million for his trip...."
