Space tourist to enjoy €19.2m adventure
Richard Garriott will make history as the first child of a US astronaut to rocket into orbit.
He is set to fly aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the international space station on October 12.
He said: “To be frank, this price tag is the majority of my wealth.”
His father, Owen Garriott, 77, was a Nasa astronaut who visited the first US space station, Skylab, in 1973.
On Monday, British billionaire Richard Branson unveiled a carrier aircraft designed to launch a passenger-carrying spaceship.
White Knight Two must undergo a rigorous flight-testing programme.
SpaceShipOne’s successor, SpaceShipTwo, is about 70% complete, according to Virgin Galactic.
