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Game Creator Richard Garriott and Crew Reach International Space Station
Wired: Wired Science —
... Garriott reportedly paid $30 million for the 10-day mission on the Space Station under a deal between Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and the Virginia-based firm Space Adventures and is their sixth orbital spaceflight customer. Garriott is adding fun, artistic, educational, scientific and commercial objectives to his mission, including carrying some of Stephen Colbert's DNA for a project called "Operation Immortality." All the mayhem can be tracked on his website ...
International Space Station Bowel Movements in Crisis [Crapper Watch 2008]
io9 —
... While the technicians fix the “gas separator issue” (we can’t make this stuff up, people), the crew will redirect individual efforts to the loo in the visiting Soyuz spacecraft—yup, the very vehicle schlepping computer-game developer/lucky-bastard space tourist/commode commodore Richard Garriott. Meanwhile, NASA is shelling out 19 million bucks for a second, state-of-the-art Russian back-up toilet that’ll surely puts that hoity-toity gold-plated throne in Hong Kong to shame. ...
