Game developer/publisher travels to space

Richard Garriot, game developer and publisher (of the Ultima series of video games), is now well on his way to visit the International Space Spacestation onboard the Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft.

I just loved playing his games especially the video game called The Privateer (wonder if I still have the game and if it will run on Wine. He sure made a bundle selling video games ‘coz I think he paid about 30 million US dollars for the space trip. He’s the very first space tourist who is a game developer.

Did you know that he is actually the son of an Astronaut (I previously didn’t)?