Lord British on Personal Spaceflight

FleaPlus writes "The Space Review has an interview with Richard Garriott (aka "Lord British"), best known as the creator of the genre-defining Ultima series of role playing games. In the interview he talks about his current work as the vice chairman of Space Adventures, and his thoughts on private-sector spaceflight in general. It includes an anecdote about how he funded the initial Russian studies which opened the door for Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, and Gregory Olsen's flights to the International Space Station, but was unable to go himself after the late-90s stock market bubble burst."

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[CHESTER COPPERPOT]

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Clearly this isn't some off topic first post troll. It is more likely an alien race trying to communicate to us via well known alphabet letters about the perils of space travel. Clearly on topic.

Sorry...

[Anonymous Coward]

but that space ship out in the field in Ultima VII doesn't do anything, oh wait, what is this article about?

If he was smart

[CrazyJim1]

He could have coded a backdoor into Ultima Online, and milked out hundreds of thousands of dollars of online gold. Just like Bill Gates has Skynet programmed on all windows boxes in case his plan for world domination ever gets out.

lord british wants to go to space?

[circletimessquare]

well that's easy

on the felucca shard there's a portal northwest of yew

just watch out for the orc camp near there

walk around the portal twice, then enter from the southwest

voila: outer space

Lord British...

[__aaclcg7560]

In space, no one can hear you scream when you get assassinated -- again. :P