Garriott Goes Green (October 27, 2009)

[ChrisReid]

It's been one year since Origin founder Richard Garriott has returned from his trip to the International Space Station. He recently conducted an interview with the Austin American-Statesman to continue to advance the cause of private spaceflight. His new interests also include exploring the concept of suborbital space/sky-diving a variety of conservational measures. Check out the full artucle here.

Although Garriott says he's not in the gaming industry at the moment, he has a "cadre of companions in the gaming industry who are already reforming as we speak."

There's nothing official to discuss yet, he said, "but there's no question my name will be reassociated back into gaming in the not-terribly-distant future."

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Original update published on October 27, 2009

 

[CataclysmX]

"His new interests also include exploring the concept of suborbital space/sky-diving.."
The first sub-orbital sky dive. Albeit I suppose all sky dives are technically sub-orbital but this one was from 102,000 feet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpsUD1oW3uo

My apologies in advance if people have all seen this before, I think sky diving even from 15,000 feet is crazy, but this is just immaculate and beyond anything I could ever brave myself to do.