Lord British To Conduct Experiments On ISS

CR0WTR0B0T writes "Richard Garriott, AKA Lord British, will be part of three experiments on the International Space Station. 'Garriott has a ticket to the space station because he is an orbital spaceflight client of Space Adventures, the only company that provides commercial human space missions ... Garriott will be the first person in space who has had photorefractive keratectomy eye surgery. NASA has approved the PRK procedure for astronauts but has not yet been able to test its effects. Garriott will help scientists figure out if visual acuity of a PRK patient changes in orbit as inner eye pressure increases by up to 50% during space flights.' Mostly, NASA wants to know if he can heal himself or provide resurrection to the other astronauts in case the experiments goes awry."

Wow!

[east coast]

I remember wanting to be Lord British when I was in my early teens... Now I want to be him again.

This guy leads a pretty charmed life, IMHO.

Early Ultima

[TheLink]

When I hear Lord British and Space, it reminds me of the earlier Ultima games...

Man I'm old...

Soon you'll be old just because you know who Lord British is :).

Should be fine...

[Avatar8]

...as long as EA doesn't assimilate NASA, shift non-NASA developers onto the ISS project, drastically increase the production cycle, overwork the astronauts and launch the shuttle way before it's ready. You can't patch in space.

Re:So, This Experiment...

[geminidomino]

Basically, he'll be reading an eyechart?

No. He'll be reading an eyechart... in spaaaaaaaaaaace!