About This Video

WSF teams up with what The Wall Street Journal calls “New York’s hottest and hippest literary ticket,” The Moth, for an innovative series of unpredictable storytelling. Scientists, writers, and esteemed artists tell on-stage stories about their personal relationship with science. When Richard Garriott learned from NASA that he couldn’t realize his lifelong dream of following in his father’s footsteps to become an astronaut due to bad vision, he did what almost anyone would do: he dropped out of school, amassed a fortune developing video games, and sent himself to space. This is his story.
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Recorded June 2010; Posted October 2010