I've got plenty of places on earth I haven't been to yet where I think I'd have more fun. Going to space would be like going on a roller coaster for me but I don't have fun on roller coasters like other people do. I feel the forces acting on my body and I resolve for it by understanding the g-forces acting on my body.

Single.
No kids.
THOU$AND$ in retirement and savings.

I'd write out a good will to donate the bulk of my money to the charities of my choice, leave some for the nieces/nephews, leave a sizeable chunk to a local animal shelter, and ride that rocket to the dark side of the moon while playing Floyd.

Hell yes!!

I saw William Shatner's reaction when he went up on his short jaunt. I believe it really humbled the man. I would expect nothing less...

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Originally posted by Skins2881:


Hell strap me in a rickety Russian craft

Howard Wolowitz : There's fuel leaking and we're still gonna go?

Michael J. Massimino : Don't lose your fruit loops, Fruit Loops.

Dimitri : This happens a lot. 9 times out of 10, no problem.

Howard Wolowitz : What happens on the 10th time?

Dimitri : Problem.

No, I have no interest in launching up to space just to orbit earth.
Now if it took me to another interesting, habitable, planet, yes.

So I start a new thread next year that reads
Went to a low orbit for six trips around the world last Saturday.

Show of hands, how many of you would believe me?

Yes, but even better go to the moon. Right now today I would go with NASA but none of the others.

Rather than a quick pop up into suborbital flight I would much rather take a long ride in an SR-71 or whatever super secret replacement they have (e.g. Aurora).

As much as I love to fly (plane ride), not no but Hell No.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:


Hell strap me in a rickety Russian craft

Howard Wolowitz : There's fuel leaking and we're still gonna go?

Michael J. Massimino : Don't lose your fruit loops, Fruit Loops.

Dimitri : This happens a lot. 9 times out of 10, no problem.

Howard Wolowitz : What happens on the 10th time?

Dimitri : Problem.

Even at 90%, sign me right the fuck up now, I'm ready for training at 0500 tomorrow.

Hell no.

Yes. With a well established company that has shown they can do it safety I would be 100% in.

Nope, I'm just claustrophobic enough to make it a bad idea.

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Originally posted by OttoSig:
How else would I get there?

Acid trip, man.

A good edible and a couple stout bong rips'll do it, too.

As for me, the idea of it sounds great, but no thanks. Not with current technology. The tech in sci-fi stuff set 300-500 years from now, sure. I have no interest in pioneering.

I’d rather go space adjacent in a blackbird, even if I got stuck riding in the back.

Dang I loved the story about the guy coming in off the Atlantic and asking the controller for flight level 600 (60,000 feet). The controller quipped that he could have flight level 600 if he could get there. “Roger, descending to flight level 600.”

I would only go if I had explored every bit of this planet and was bored of it.

I'm not even close to that, so, no.

I recently learned something about human brain development. Teenagers are predisposed to be less risk averse than adults because their brains are still developing.

When I was a teenager, I wanted to be a pilot. But my eyesight quashed that idea. I am now many years from being a teenager and in retrospect I am happy I did not become a pilot.

No space travel, no submarines, no cruise ships and only fly when absolutely necessary. I’m fine with watching science fiction TV shows and movies when I want to see space travel.

Edit: No scuba diving either for me.

I’d go if our methods for doing so were more sophisticated.

Nope. I would have to drive on I-4 to get to Kennedy Space Center. It's not worth the risk.

Yes and no.

I would LOVE a space flight, but I'm not sure about doing all the training. . .

Just thinking about having a space helmet on for hours at a time makes my nose itch violently.

The safety concerns don't really bother me. Back in 1986, I said I would go up on a shuttle the very next week without any changes made to the shuttle/boosters (like that was going to happen - NASA grounded the entire fleet for 2 years).

I would love to go to the moon, but NOT Mars. That is WAYYYY too long of a trip (at least 5 months each way; possibly up to 8 months depending on the relative position of Earth and Mars at the time of launch). Committing years of training for a short one week flight doesn't sound very fun, but of course, I'll never know.

I would much rather go with NASA, but they would require a lot more training, and it would probably cause a lot of tension and animosity between me (a tourist) and the 'real' astronauts. Heck, some of the shuttle Pilots and Commanders (rated pilots who flew the spacecraft) didn't even like for the Mission Specialists or Payload Specialists to be called 'astronauts,' as they felt the 'passengers/guys in back' didn't 'earn their dues' like they did. **IIRC, Mission Specialists were NASA employees who ran NASA experiments. Payload Specialists often were foreigners or worked for Lockheed/Boeing/ETC and ran whatever payload tests/experiments those companies put on the shuttle. I MIGHT have those positions backwards. . .**** Some astronauts can be real douchebags, it seems (not all of them, I know, but I've read enough about them that some of the more macho/jock types can be real a-holes to people who aren't pilots/astronauts).

Space, Yes.
But the odds of surviving a cruise ship are much better.

Yes, I would go, I've always liked above earth adventures, balloon, glider, sky dive.