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- October 12, 2008 21:53 PM PST
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Richard Garriott takes to orbit in a $30 million space trip launched Sunday morning from the Kazakhstan.
Richard Garriott, one of the founding fathers of massively multiplayer online gaming, blasted off into space early Sunday morning. The trip took off in a Soyuz TMA-13 from the nation of Kazakhstan with Garriott and a two-man crew aboard.
Garriott (far left) poses with his American and Russian space comrades.
For ten days, Garriott will participate in experiments scheduled on the international space station. The $30 million trip has long been a wish of the famed online game designer who had used part of his own wealth to fund the expedition--some of which undoubtedly came as a result of his most recent title, Tabula Rasa. Sponsorships also contributed to paying for the endeavor.
Considering that Tabula Rasa has failed to hit subscriber forecasts since its launch in late 2007, perhaps it's more prudent to assume funding for Garriott's trip came from his other online game: Ultima. That game is frequently credited as establishing the genre we now know as World of Warcraft massively multiplayer online gaming.
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- Oct 13 2008 at 06:37:37:AM PST
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Kazakhstan? Even though it must be sweet to just blow of $30 million, I would kind of be leary about launching in anything from Kazakhstan. It would seem like
Garriott paid for the whole trip, they had the ship and he had the gas money.
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This is good news and fun news to read. I envy him, I would love to go into space even if it was on a Russian ship.
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Kubrick wrote:
This is good news and fun news to read. I envy him, I would love to go into space even if it was on a Russian ship.
Kubrick, I have a giant slingshot in my yard. For a few bucks I could attempt to lauch you into space... by space I mean the yard next to my home. J/K
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I wonder what kind of songs they sing up there...
#Soaring so high above the world
Never thought I could be so free
I'm one with the birds
And magic is all I see..#
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Nooo, games aren't over priced at all. I mean everyone has 30 million to spare for a FN SPACE TRIP!
A space trip on our dime, boy I'm really proud to be a gamer.
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A space trip on our dime, boy I'm really proud to be a gamer.
Isn't that the same as complaining when a sales person from Best Buy gets a new car? He gets paid same as anyone else, not his fault he was successful.
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