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Become an astronaut. I know we like to talk about privately funded trips to mars but the reality is the mission hardware for the first many missions is not like
by ryanmarsh 10y ago
Become an astronaut. I know we like to talk about privately funded trips to mars but the reality is the mission hardware for the first many missions is not likely to be entrusted to people who have not met rigorous requirements for spaceflight.
- nickff 10y agoThe requirements for spaceflight are not so rigorous anymore. There have already been paying passengers (who were non-astronauts) on Russian space vehicles. Much like with a commercial airliner, the pilot has to know what they are doing, and the rest of the people have to know how to sit down and buckle-up. The current issue seems to be that because it is so expensive to send people up, they only send up the very best they can train.
- schoen 10y agoIt would probably be different for orbital missions as opposed to interplanetary missions -- at least at first!