On October 12, Richard Garriott is scheduled to blast off into space on a Russian spaceship, the launch being set to take place from the Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

The United States video game magnat has paid over $30 million for this upcoming journey into the outer-space, which is aimed at conducting scientific experiments. Garriot will be joining U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov on the International Space Station (ISS), the three of them being due to perform the experiments together afterwards.

The blast off is to take place this Sunday at 1:03 a.m. EDT, while Richard Garriott’s return is scheduled for October 24. The launch pad on which the spaceship was fixed this Friday is the same one that in 1961, helped to render Yuri Gagarin the first man to go to space. On April 12 that year, the Russian cosmonaut became the first human to orbit the Earth.

Garriott, 47, is the son of Owen K. Garriott, a former NASA astronaut who, in the year 1973, spent 60 days aboard Skylab, the first space station that the United States launched to orbit.

Ten years later, he stayed aboard Spacelab-1 for a period of ten days. Spacelab-1, also known as STS-9 or STS-41A, was Space Shuttle Columbia’s sixth mission into space.

The video game tycoon completed his training for his outer-space journey at a space center near Moscow.

After space crews have faced major issues on returning from the ISS this year, many are currently concerned about the prospect of a ballistic landing of Garriott’s spaceship. Nevertheless, the man has stated that he felt confident the landing would go smoothly, adding that, even if it wouldn’t, he did not fear a bumpy journey back to Earth.