Fellow Austinite and gamer Richard Garriot hurtled his meager body into the void to visit the space station today. However unless he figures out how to roll a d20 in space, I'm not jealous 8)
maybe you thought I was making this up? It's true-
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkTcZ4EMnsrwpreYifsi3MC2kyPA (http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkTcZ4EMnsrwpreYifsi3MC2kyPA)
millionaires paying to be private astronauts may not be as exciting as waxing your chain [roll] but its part of the first steps of space colonization which I think is pretty fascinating.