Austin’s Richard Garriott traveling to the Mariana Trench

“Austin’s Astronaut” Richard Garriott is diving down to the Mariana Trench next week, the deepest part of the ocean. An astronaut named Kelly Sullivan did the dive last week becoming the first person to have flown in space and traveled to the deepest part of the ocean. Garriott will become the first man to do that and also the first person period to have: been in space, been to both the north and south poles of the Earth and been to the Mariana Trench.