The sixth space traveler returns safely

Yesterday morning (October 24), Russia's Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft carrying American tourist Richard Garriott and two Russian astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan.

The ship landed at 10:36 this morning in Vietnam time (ie 3g36 international time). Richard Garriott and two astronauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, working on the International Space Station (ISS) for the past 6 months, said they were " healthy ".

Millionaire Richard Garriott paid about $ 30 million to travel to ISS in 10 days. He is the son of an astronaut, the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA), and the first American to follow his father into space.

For 10 days in space, Richard Garriott did some experiments and took photos of the Earth to find changes on the planet compared to the photos his father had taken from the US Skylap space station year. 1973.

Soyuz TMA-12 is landing near Arkalyk, Kazakhstan on October 24 (Photo: AP)

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