Space Oddity: Lord British pays $30 million for trip to International Space Station

Can you hear me, Lord British?
Can you hear me, Lord British?
Can you hear me, Lord British?
Can you...

Behind Chris Elliot?

Helping poor people buy video games? Haha. Or maybe something a little more useful like, I don't know... curing diseases?

You know... just a thought.

Or video games that teach u how to cure disease...lolz

I wish I could stick my penis in a girl's vagina in space (if you know what I mean).

I wish I was rich and eccentric enough to rename myself after a country which isn't even my homeland.

@Yourself

"Lord British" was born in England.

And apparently he's a lord.

Born in England to American parents, then lived his entire life in the US. And he's not a 'Lord' in any sense of the word except that his fictional persona is one. Not saying he's not a British citizen, just that his sobriquet is reasonably obnoxious.

I resent the connotations that his nickname brings.

He malarks about the news doing random shit and everyone always blames us brits for it.

I'd pay him $30 million to do that.

Yes, but the back when he did make games they were some of the best games around. He basically created the modern computer rpg genre.

And he did admit that he is spending the bulk of his fortune on this little stunt. But if he wasn't spending it on this he'd probably just build another castle... he's already built two complete with secret passages and everything.

He made his fortune back with the Ultima Series.

I also heard that the owned the rights to the lunar rover that NASA had left on the moon during the first mission.

he's not paying all expenses. This is an ad for Tabula Rasa, if you go to the site you'll see it. Their marketing crew is paying mostly for his "journey".

But he is somewhat rich, yeah. Royalty for having the name on a box pays more then the developing itself (the brain age doctor earned some millions dollars, so I guess "Lord" here must have some good cash also)

Er its HIS money to waste, he can do what the hell he likes with it, I dont think you would care for anyone telling you what to do with your money if you had $30m

Are you helping starving children?

Personally, I was going to buy a misquito net for some African kids but I don't have any money right now since I don't have a job anymore.

Agreed on the haterade.

I actually think these private trips to space may be a good thing. The space program sparked the imagination of America in a way no other scientific endeavor ever has. If private flights to space can help foster some of the level of imagination created by the Apollo and early shuttle programs, I'm all for rich people blowing their money on it. This includes the development of private spacecraft, tourists on government flights, access to zeroG simulators, etc.

Spaceflight, when I was a kid, was a dream that only dozens around the world might ever achieve. Thanks to the privatization of spaceflight, it at least may be in the reach of thousands or tens of thousands, if not more.

And yes, Garriot's flight does have something to do with this. As it became clear that people were willing to spend millions to tag along with government flights, the private spaceflight industry emerged as a realistic business model. Things like his $30 million prove to investors that it isn't insane to invest in private spaceflight companies, thereby possibly bringing to a far wider demographic than just the super rich once the technology is developed.

i think he has been planning and paying for this trip for some time. even before bush looked into the then russian president, and maybe now secret russian president, putan's eyes and saw his soul. i think he was taken a back by recent events but he was there training.