Richard Garriott heads into space

Posted Oct 12th 2008 9:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, MMO

He's doing what few men and women have done; the creator of the Ultima game series is now in orbit around the Earth. Richard "Lord British" Garriott was in a Soyuz rocket that launched from the Baikonur space center in Russia early this morning to be come the latest "space tourist". Garriott paid $30 million to the Space Adventures group for the journey.

Garriott's father, Owen Garriott, was a former NASA astronaut and he saw his son lift off into space today. It's the first time in history that a son has followed his father into space. Garriott is now headed for the International Space Station and will dock with the station on Tuesday where he will perfore several experiments. He will also leave behind a hard drive with lots of digital DNA patterns from people as part of Operation Immortality, which has been promoted by his current employer NCsoft. He is scheduled to spend a total of 10 days in orbit.

Tags: ncsoft, operation-immortality, richard-garriott, tabula-rasa, ultima

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