After 10 days being in Earth orbit, game designer Richard Garriott has finally returned to Earth. The creator of the Ultima and Ultima Online franchise (and more recently Tabula Rasa for NCsoft). Garriott paid $30 million to a company called Space Adventures for the trip up to the International Space Station via a Russian Soyuz rocket.

Garriott came back to Earth via a Soyuz capsule which landed in the Kazakhstan steppes earlier today. During his 10 day flight Garriott performed a number of experiments aboard the ISS for both NASA and the European Space Agency and left a hard drive filled with digital DNA codes from a number of people in the hope they would be preserved forever.