What is it like to be one of the first Space Station tourists?
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Space may no longer be the final frontier but what is it like orbit the Earth? To find out The Agenda spoke to one of the world's first space tourists, gaming billionaire Richard Garriot for a first hand account of his life changing experience. 

Find out what boarding a rocket and blasting into Space felt like as he relives the moment he visited the International Space Station in 2008.

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