Richard Allen Garriott
United States of America
SOYUZ TMA-13 (12 October 2008)
Garriott is a British-American video game developer and entrepreneur, known as his alter egos Lord British in Ultima and General British in Tabula Rasa.
A figure in the video game industry, Garriott originally a game designer and programmer and now engages in various aspects of computer game development and business.
On 28 September 2007, Space Adventures announced that Garriott would fly to the International Space Station in October 2008 as the sixth space tourist, reportedly paying US$30 million.
During his spaceflight, Garriott took part in several education outreached efforts.
He is an Amateur Radio Operator (callsign W5KWQ) and during his stay on the International Space Station (ISS), he communicated with students and other Amateur Radio operators using Amateur Radio.
Garriott also transmitted photographs using the ARISS SSTV amateur radio syatem.
Garriott also worked with the Windows on Earth project, which provides an interactive, virtual view of earth as seen from ISS.
Garriott used the Windows on Earth software to assist in the selection of locations on Earth to photograph and the public were able to use the same online tool to track the ISS and see the view he was experiencing out an ISS window.
His photographs, along with images taken by his Astronaut father Owen Garriott in 1973, will be available to the public through Windows on Earth, adding a personel element to studies of Earth and how Earth has changed over time.
He is the first affspring of an American Astronaut to go into space and the second person to wear the British Union flag in space.
Garriott became the ninth inductee into the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences' Hall of Fame in 2006.
