telegraph hasa great featureon Richard Garriott , the father of MMORPG OG Ultima and the latest millionaire to get nail up to the ISS as a paying tourist . More specifically , the punishing 8 calendar month of training Garriott must first endure at Zvyozdny Gorodok , ( Star City ) , a.k.a . Yuri ’s house , a.k.a . where blank flight was born . All tourists on the ISS must be up to of performing missionary station - vital duties in the event of an emergency , and Wired pursue Garriott through the historic situation every step of the way , grabbing fantastic picture of this incredibly historic deftness in the appendage . All pic by Benedict Redgrove :
Inside Star City you ’ll regain Gagarin idols everyhwere , full - size Soyuz mockups ( top ) , massive Cold War era centrifugate and , often , no blistering water . It is here where Space Adventures travelers like Garriott must learn to execute nearly every task that the missionary post ’s actual cosmonauts will do , in fount of hand brake ( even though the most glamorous duty he ’ll likely end up doing is void the pot ) . And , eventually face this ( emphasis my own ):
All this is nothing compare with the TsF-18 separator . Weighing 300 tons and measure out 59 feet farsighted , it looks like a giant blue penis . It spins at 170 miles per hour , and riders are instruct not to open up their oral fissure while in motion because the atmospheric pressure will break their jaw , according to Driga . “ It is like nightmare , ” she adds . “ Imagine being buried deep in Baroness Dudevant and wanting to move but can not . ”
Many more photograph and a really nice read at : [ wire ]
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