Video game creator Richard Garriott to become 6th space tourist

MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti) - U.S. computer game developer Richard Garriott will become the sixth tourist to travel into space, Space Adventures announced on Friday.

The British-born developer of the Ultima computer game series, whose father is former NASA astronaut Owen K. Garriott, will be taken to the International Space Station on board a Russian Soyuz spacecraft in 2008, the company said.

U.S.-based Space Adventures Ltd., the only company currently providing opportunities for space tourism, charges around $20 million per Russian-organized private trip.