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• Space millionaire confident ahead of liftoff
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Richard Garriott, a U.S. space tourist due to travel to space on a Russian spaceship on Sunday, said he was unfazed by the prospect of a bumpy ride back to Earth, saying he expected to land safely. Crews returning from the ...
• Google founder visits Russian cosmodrome
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Google co-founder Sergey Brin, considering going into space on a private flight, made a surprise visit to Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome on Saturday to wish good luck to a fellow space tourist. Richard Garriott, a U.S. computer ...
• U.S. space tourist blasts off in Soyuz rocket
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - 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 ...
• Too Little Too Soon From Chevron
Beyond that, international production was affected negatively in the first two-thirds of the quarter to the tune of about 6% by planned maintenance, primarily at the giant Tengiz Field in Kazakhstan. The downstream appears to have been nursed back to ...
• Veteran space station crew ready to fly
Expedition 18 commander Michael Fincke and flight engineer Yury Lonchakov, both veteran spaceflyers, are due to launch Oct. 12 aboard a Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan ...