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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. |
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. |
Popular Mechanics June 12, 2008 Joe Pappalardo |
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. |