Game designer Richard Garriott returns to earth after trip to International Space Station
Game designer Richard Garriott returned safely to earth today after a trip to the International Space Station aboard a privately-funded rocket launched by Space Adventures.
Garriott landed in the Kazakhstan steppes aboard the Soyuz TMA-12 space craft with fellow crew members Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko. Garriott, the son of NASA astronaut Owen Garriott, made history as the first U.S. second-generation astronaut to go into space. (Volkov was also a second-generation astronaut). He paid $30 million… Continue Reading
Space-faring game designer Richard Garriott to promote his game in outer space
Richard Garriott is one of the most famous game designers on the planet and he has been inducted into just about every gamer Hall of Fame. Now he wants to be famous off-planet.
At a personal cost of more than $30 million, the game designer has signed up with Space Adventures (in which he’s an investor) to be shot into space on October 12 on a Russian Soyuz rocket. And while he’s up there, logging days… Continue Reading