"He [Garriott] plans to conduct a series of interactive webcasts associated with his spaceflight training in Russia, conduct podcasts discussing activities related to both his training and spaceflight..., and perform experiments that can be replicated by students using everyday objects to demonstrate important concepts in physics," the website said.
U.S. games developer Garriott, 46, the son of former NASA astronaut Owen K. Garriott, and another would-be space tourist Nik Halik, 38, an Australian entrepreneur, are already undergoing physical training and studying Russian in preparation for their trip.
After the $3 million training program the two men will be certified as fully-trained astronauts.
Dennis Tito, an American businessman and former NASA scientist, became the first space tourist when he visited the ISS in 2001. He was followed by South African computer millionaire Mark Shuttleworth in 2002, and Gregory Olsen, a U.S. entrepreneur and scientist, in 2005.
In 2006 Anousheh Ansari, 40, a U.S. passport holder of Iranian descent and communications head, became the first female space tourist, followed by Charles Simonyi, 58, a U.S. passport holder born in Hungary and a key figure in developing Microsoft's Word and Excel applications, in 2007.
The space tourists paid about $20 million each for the pleasure of spending a week on the orbital station, but Russia said the price for commercial space flights was set to rise in the future, reaching $25 million.
