Lord British in Space

Kalniel writes in with the news that the creator of the Ultimas, Richard Garriot,  has fulfilled a longstanding ambition and become a "space tourist." Here's the lowdown from the UK Times Online:

Richard Garriott, 47, will dock tomorrow at the International Space Station, 225 miles above Earth, 35 years after his father Owen flew aboard one of Nasa’s last Apollo missions to Skylab, America’s first orbiting laboratory.

The multi-millionaire computer-game developer, who began his working life as a kitchen assistant at Burger King, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today as a private passenger aboard a Soyuz capsule, having paid the Russian space agency $30 million for the privilege and undergone a year’s training.

Thanks, kalniel.