Would you go on a privately owned spaceship?

Merlin5

Merlin5

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SpaceX. I wouldn't want to be one of the first guinea pigs. NASA have gotten private companies to continue space travel to keep their astronauts in space and I think paying customers too. I think anyone paying to get on early flights would be nuts, I mean even NASA get it wrong, but they are absolutely meticulous with detail and won't fly if they're not happy with the tiniest issue. So would you trust a brand new private company to maintain the same level of detail and safety as NASA and to get you into space and back home without it blowing up?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13341469

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13341292
 
Merlin5 said:
So would you trust a brand new private company to maintain the same level of detail and safety as NASA and to get you into space and back home without it blowing up?
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As you say NASA are pretty anal when it comes to the blowing up portion of space travel and I would fear that if more companies started providing such a service then competition would make them start to cut corners, which would not be good for those who wish to skip said blowing up experiences.


As long as it wasn't EasyShuttle then perhaps I would.
 
I probably would, yeah, why not.

First person to die in space.... or have a nice tourist trip, can't be bad.

(don't think anyone has died in space, most were going up or coming back down)
Did the Russians send a mission to the moon that crashed on the dark side, or did I lolkwerk that one?

-ninja edit
The only deaths in space were the three crew of Soyuz 11 on June 30 1971, who died when their cabin depressurized at an altitude of 168km. The official definition of the beginning of space is 100km, so they just qualify. All the other space-related deaths have been on the ground, during launch, or re-entry below 100km.

Appears I am wrong.
No death records to be broken up there I suppose.
 
Havent we had privately funded spave tourism? (Richard Garriott)
Was watching that Bruce Willis asteroid film the other night (under protest) and started laughing my nuts off when I realised that all these space cowboy films are going to be worth nothing in a couple of years when NASA can't even put a monkey into space without either the French or the Russians or potentially the Chinese to do it for them.
Yes, space will become the "must go" place for the noveau riche, but you'll have to go outside the US to get it.
 
Yes. I would, they wouldn't cut corners, it would devaste their company. Who's going to book if they keep blowing up. The risk however is high as It's space travel, I would still be willing though.
 
bhavv said:
$100-$150 million for a trip to the moon.

I think I'll pass.
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But hell! If you have enough money to be able to make a decision on this based on finances, youi have enough money to say "what the hell, why not?" If you can afford a couple of hundred mill, then why not do it anyway? You might have preferred your weekend in clackton-on-sea the year before but how many other people in your circle have been into space?
Disposable income is what is says it is... disposable.
 
tibbsey said:
As you say NASA are pretty anal when it comes to the blowing up portion of space travel and I would fear that if more companies started providing such a service then competition would make them start to cut corners, which would not be good for those who wish to skip said blowing up experiences.


As long as it wasn't EasyShuttle then perhaps I would.
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