Richard Garriott pays $30 million to go to space

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Richard Garriott is perhaps best known as the legendary designer of such classic video games as "Ultima" and the upcoming "Tabula Rasa."

But he's also the son of former NASA astronaut Owen Garriott. He says that, as an astronaut's son, he'd always wanted to go beyond games and follow in his father's footsteps. But the games designer also says he knew that making it through NASA was highly improbable.

So he's found another route -- and he finally gets his chance at space travel next year.