(12 Oct 2008)
1. Interior of control room
2. Wide of Russian Soyuz rocket
3. Close of reactors UPSOUND: (English) countdown
4. Wide of rocket lifting off
5. Various of rocket in sky
6. Crew inside rocket
7. Wide interior of control room
8. Crew inside rocket
9. Wide of world map showing space routes
STORYLINE:
Two Americans and a Russian were on their way on Sunday to the International Space Station (ISS).
A Russian rocket with a Soyuz capsule carrying American computer game (m) millionaire Richard Garriott lifted off from the launch facility in Kazakhstan for a two-day trip to the orbital station.
Also aboard were US astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov.
Garriott is the first American to follow his father into space.
Garriott's father Owen made two space flights as a US astronaut in the 1970s and 80s.
He and other relatives watched Sunday's launch from a viewing platform at the Baikonur facility on the Kazakh steppe.
Garriott is to spend about 10 days on the space station.
Fincke and Lonchakov are to replace the crew and remain for months.
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