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Popular Mechanics
June 12, 2008
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Google Exec's ISS Trip Sends Yet Another Rich Geek to Space Two more big names are now set to join the pantheon of private citizens turned space tourists (if they'll even let you call them that anymore). And, you guessed it, they're both rich nerds -- again.   |
Fast Company
November 1, 2007
Peter Lewis |
Do You Want to Play? Richard Garriott set out to design an online game that would shake up a genre he helped create. It has taken six years -- with time off to train as a cosmonaut, hunt shrunken heads, and study magic. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
The Amazing Orbiting Garriotts In 1973, Owen Garriott made electrical engineering history as the first EE astronaut to travel into space, spending 60 days aboard Skylab, the U.S. -- run space station. |
Salon.com
December 3, 2001
Wagner James Au |
The return of Lord British Banished from his own Ultima domains, game designer Richard Garriott is making a comeback, via Korea... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
James Oberg |
Internal NASA Documents Give Clues to Scary Soyuz Return Flight Engineers are attempting to reconstruct the 19 April Soyuz descent from the ISS. |
Popular Mechanics
August 2008 |
Soyuz Spacecraft Re-Entry Mishaps Force Fix: What Went Wrong As Russian and American space officials scramble for answers about the rockets that will soon be filling in for the space shuttle, cosmonauts will upgrade finicky modules this week. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
James Oberg |
Russians Close In on Cause of Soyuz Landing Anomaly Clues could come from a space walk next week |
Popular Mechanics
April 7, 2009
Garriott & Garriott |
Experiments in Space: Richard and Owen Garriott on How Private Space Flights Can Advance Important Science Like astronauts, Richard was involved with scientific research, in collaboration with state agencies including NASA, the European Space Agency and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, as well as nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2009 |
His Space At just under 7 feet, James Oberg was too tall to be an astronaut, so he became an aerospace engineer and then a space reporter instead. |
