Lord British himself will sit for a Reddit Ask Me Anything this afternoon on /r/space as space enthusiasts ask him all about his experiences being a private astronaut. The AMA’s being promoted by NBC’s science wing, which last week hosted a long-form piece by Garriott in which he discussed his lifelong space flight dreams and how he finally realized them, though he shut down the “space tourist label” pretty hard.
Garriott is of course best known to MMO players as one of the founding fathers of the genre thanks to Ultima Online; he’s currently leading Shroud of the Avatar at the helm of his company Portalarium. Most recently, he published a memoir and publicly committed SOTA to Neverdie’s peer-to-peer online money trading venture.
The AMA kicks off at 3 p.m. EDT today, just as this post goes live.
Join us & @RichardGarriott for a #RedditAMA in /r/space on being a private astronaut tomorrow (7/25) 3 P.M. EST #MakingOfAnAstronaut @Reddit
— NBC News Science (@NBCNewsScience) July 24, 2017