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You can save up $200,000 for Virgin Galactic, it has some delays and problems but I think it will be ready in time for you to experience being an astronaut. (Tr
by meric 11y ago
You can save up $200,000 for Virgin Galactic, it has some delays and problems but I think it will be ready in time for you to experience being an astronaut. (Training, preparation, take off, landing, and telling stories about it). If it's what you want to experience, go for it.
If not Virgin Galactic there will be another company.
- jacquesm 11y agoSpace tourist != astronaut, if they will ever deliver. Roughly like being a bus passenger is not the same as being a busdriver.
- robryan 11y agoI suspect most people don't have much of an interest in the actual job of being an astronaut. Simply want to experience a trip into space.
- ChuckMcM 11y agoWell in my case it was "doing science, in space!" which was something I thought would be really cool, after all if you're in space you're already in a target rich environment for discoveries, and then getting time to do science there? Well no end to the things you could find out. As a kid I used to write down space experiments in my notebook[1] that I would do when I was in space. [1] Not exactly epic experiments though, I recall that one of the sillier ones was tie two fans together at the base, with their blades facing opposite directions, and see how fast it would spin.