NASA will let people pay to stay on the International Space Station

Orionaut said:
Ownership is ultimately about access.

The Russians own the ISS
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Who owns the International Space Station?

The Intergovernmental Agreement allows the Space Station Partners States to extend their national jurisdiction in outer space, so the elements they provide (e.g. laboratories) are assimilated to the territories of the Partners States.

The basic rule is that 'each partner shall retain jurisdiction and control over the elements it registers and over personnel in or on the Space Station who are its nationals' (Article 5 of the Intergovernmental Agreement).

This means that the owners of the Space Station - the United States, Russia, the European Partner, Japan and Canada - are legally responsible for the respective elements they provide. The European States are being treated as one homogenous entity, called the European Partner on the Space Station. But any of the European States may extend their respective national laws and regulations to the European elements, equipment and personnel.

This extension of national jurisdiction determines what laws are applicable for activities occurring on a Partner’s Space Station elements (e.g. European law in the European Columbus Laboratory). This legal regime recognises the jurisdiction of the Partner States’s courts and allows the application of national laws in such areas as criminal matters, liability issues, and protection of intellectual property rights. Any conflicts of jurisdiction between the Partners may be resolved through the application of other rules and procedures already developed nationally and internationally.
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https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/...n/International_Space_Station_legal_framework
 
Orionaut said:
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To the Women however, it must have been a complete roller-coaster of fear and terror and I actually think that their role in all this has been totally ignored by history.

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Very traumatic watching them drive off to a film studio :)

Seriously though you are correct, the multi part series (The Right Stuff!) where the wives are living at base never knowing if their husbands will come home.
Watching films like First Man and Apollo 13 and the wives sitting there wondering if they will come back, these are things I noticed also.
 
I believe these visitors are scientists and have a busy scheduled planned during their visit. I think their sponsors are planning to build the first privately funded space station. Now I expect that will allow to people go up and get bored for a fee.
 
arknor said:
most people surely get bored after 1 day and it's taking up space real scientists could use
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Firstly these tourists are doing science experiments as that was part of the deal, they don't let people take up space on the ISS if they are not doing work as well. A lot of the experiments done on the ISS does not involve on the spot scientific analysis so you don't need a real scientist, you just need a human to open some boxes and press some buttons to run automated experiments then grab the data and package it up for return to Earth where real scientist will analyse data. Because this sounds so simple and it is, in future we can have robots placed on the ISS or other stations where we just need up experiments and the robots run them and send it back

Secondly this is a kind of dry run only not a long term operation - they will be building private space stations which is where future tourists will go and they will just get to relax and not work
 
I’d rather spend the money on a round the world cruise on the best ship in the best suite. Much more fulfilling, interesting and fun imo.
 
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