Soyuz spacecraft lifts off on space station voyage
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
A Soyuz spacecraft with two Americans and a Russian on board lifted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for the international space station.
The Soyuz TMA-13 capsule carrying American computer game millionaire Richard Garriott soared into a clear sky atop a Russian rocket as the latest paying space traveler's family watched from a viewing platform. Also aboard were US astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov.
The rocket lifted off on schedule at 1:01 p.m., sending an orange flare behind it as it streaked upward. The craft entered orbit about 10 minutes later.
"I'm elated, elated," said Richard Garriott's father, Owen, a former US astronaut who is the first American to see his child follow in his footsteps and reach space. "They're in orbit, that's good."
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