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 KOROLYOV, Russia (AP) - American millionaire space traveler Gregory Olsen floated into the international space station Monday, welcomed by the outpost's two-man crew with the traditional Russian greeting of bread and salt.
Two days after blasting off from Kazakhstan, a Soyuz capsule carrying the New Jersey scientist, as well as American astronaut William McArthur and Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev, hooked up with the station 250 miles above the Earth at 1:27 a.m. EDT, about five minutes ahead of schedule.
With the arrival, Olsen became the third private citizen to visit the orbiting station, having paid $20 million to become what he calls a "space flight participant."
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