Richard Garriott, a famous video game developer, is paying millions of dollars for a ride on a Russian rocket to the International Space Station.
He's wanted to go to space since he was a kid. His father and all his neighbors were NASA astronauts. Garriott is America's first, second generation astronaut.
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