A Russian Soyuz spacecraft brought first space tourist Richard Garriott to the International Space Station Tuesday and the American boarded the orbiting facility manned by two cosmonauts and an astronaut.

The Soyuz TMA-13 also carrying NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov docked to the ISS at 4:38 a.m. EDT. The three visitors were welcomed by ISS crews Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko of Russia and Greg Chamitoff of NASA.

During his stay in the ISS until Oct. 24, Garriott, 47, will orbit the Earth 170 times. He will take photos of the Earth and do experiments for his sponsors, who partly shouldered the $30 million cost of his space adventure organized by space tourism firm Space Adventures Ltd. of Vienna, Virginia.

The son of Skylab astronaut Owen Garriot, the computer gaming businessman left Earth on Oct. 12 taking off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan after training for the space flight at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia.