Richard Garriott de Cayeux (born Richard Allen Garriott on July 4, 1961) is a video game developer and entrepreneur. On October 12, 2008, Garriott launched aboard Soyuz TMA-13 to the International Space Station as a self-funded private astronaut. Read more
NCsoft, South Korea's largest game company by revenue, said its American game director Richard Garriott will fly to the International Space Station in the fall of 2008, only a few months after Ko San takes the exactly same flight to become the nation's first astronaut.