Trip to ISS/Orbit, would you do it?

I would love to do it, but would wait until I was much older. I do not want to risk my family's security and future by getting myself killed in my early 30's chasing something that will only become cheaper, more reliable and less risk for my family as i age! :)
 
Kedge is the guy that blows up the first (omg spoilers) "Spinny gyroscope Alien machine" in the craptastic film Contact.
 
No thanks, rather not cook alive on re-entry. Don't think people realise you couldn't just be sent up there on a trip without years of training/preparation.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Go do it then.
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Give me 70million and I will. Or 250k for sub orbital

The reason nasa/russian astronauts train so long is they need to know everything. They need to know orbital mechanics, how to repair the ids, how to pilot and repair Soyuz. They train fir years on EVAs etc.

A Holliday maker would not need to do this.
Things will get interesting in the next few years, when dragon has been human rated and falcon heavy enters service. Bigelow aerospace want to use them to deliver a private space station and guests, using there inflatable habitats, that have already been tested in space. Just no launch vehicle for a bigger version, or a way to get paying customers up their.
 
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Glaucus said:
Give me 70million and I will. Or 250k for sub orbital

The reason nasa/russian astronauts train so long is they need to know everything. They need to know orbital mechanics, how to repair the ids, how to pilot and repair Soyuz. They train fir years on EVAs etc.

A Holliday maker would not need to do this.
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Even with 70mil they still wouldn't let you go without months of training or possibly not at all.
 
Ayahuasca said:
Even with 70mil they still wouldn't let you go without months of training or possibly not at all.
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months is not years like you said. That is also using Soyuz/IIS. This model will not be needed in the coming years, negating even that. Which ever way you look at it, what you said is wrong. dragon will be rated for 7 people. Meaning you can carry a trained crew and paying passengers to a private space station.

Also by the end of the year virgin galactic should be up and running, needing virtually zero training. A medical check that most people pass and then a g-force test. Of the first 81 (22 up to 88years old) passengers 93% passed the g-force test. Then a three day training schedule before the flight, mainly vomit comet.
 
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Ayahuasca said:
Even with 70mil they still wouldn't let you go without months of training or possibly not at all.
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When it has to be paid by the operator they simply can't afford to carry any dead weight. If the passenger covers the extra costs then it isn't a problem. They would need to test that you're physically up to it but, as in normal air flight, they won't be expecting you to help fly the thing.
 
Tuppy_Glossop said:
When it has to be paid by the operator they simply can't afford to carry any dead weight. If the passenger covers the extra costs then it isn't a problem. They would need to test that you're physically up to it but, as in normal air flight, they won't be expecting you to help fly the thing.
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So why is there no documented cases of people paying for a trip to the ISS?
 
Ayahuasca said:
So why is there no documented cases of people paying for a trip to the ISS?
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Lol there are. But it requires Russia to give up one of their places, between that and the 70mill price tag (20-40mill at the time), it doesn't happen often. Russia stopped it in 2010 due to no space shuttle, meaning seats in the soyuz had to take everyone up.
 
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