The Explorers Club - An Interview with Richard Garriott
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I'm a Nasa Astronot and I Grew Up in a Normal Neighborhood
The first non go overnment employee to fly on a space mission was back in 19 84. Richard Branson is the founder of private space tourism company, Space adventures. He grew up believing everybody goes to space because everyone he knew either went themselves or was involved in putting people into space. At 13 years old when one of the nasa doctors told him that, because i needed glasses, that i was no longer eligible to be a nasa astronot. And immediately, even as a teenager, began to invest in opening up commercial space flight.
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