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Is Outer Space for You?

Posted January 20, 2010 7:40 AM

Readily-available consumer space flight is not quite here yet, but it's coming soon. Would you put a trip into space on your trip on your bucket list? Since cost is obviously still an obstacle, would you consider dropping $200,000 on a ticket presuming if you won $2,000,000 in the lottery? Or maybe you think the SpaceShipTwo program is a technical novelty at best, or a demonstration of excess at worst? Tell us your thoughts.

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Re: Is Outer Space for You?

02/04/2010 11:55 AM

In a heartbeat!

A reporter asked me, about a year after Challenger when I was working on the DFI PCM system for the next launch if I would fly the shuttle. That is the same answer I gave then as now. Embellished a bit by ".... crawling over glass from Newtown PA to the cape..."

Space and Deep Ocean are two vital frontiers and both can teach us much. To be able to go there, even as a spectator, has always been a dream of mine.
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Re: Is Outer Space for You?

02/05/2010 9:05 AM

Hi,

Ever since I had the eyes to see,The mind to comprehend,The ability to rationalise and the will to further knowledge I have dreamt of exploring the universe for the development of mankind

I am 65 years old and the dream has never dimmed
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Re: Is Outer Space for You?

02/09/2010 2:29 PM

after much fantasising, i came to the conclusion that it's no big deal.$200 g's i'll buy a brand new cessna and fly it anytime.what you see out there will not match your expectations.that's why branson is so rich, because people buy anything he puts out.
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