http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/05/26/astronaut-skepticism-about-space-tourism/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/05/26/astronaut-skepticism-about-space-tourism/comment-page-1/#comment-1861 Tue, 30 May 2006 20:38:46 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/05/26/astronaut-skepticism-about-space-tourism/#comment-1861 I don’t think current or former astronauts are the right “experts” to talk about space tourism. They are members of a select group of people who are lucky enough to have the combination of the correct interests, expertise, skills, personality, timing, age, and nationality to get paid by their government go into space. However, being a member of that select few does not make them the only people interested in going in to space. They aren’t the target audience of space tourism — it would be just as hard for a non-golfer like me to understand why someone would spend $1000 on a golf club (even when they’re no good at golf) but they do.

]]> http://www.newspacejournal.com/2006/05/26/astronaut-skepticism-about-space-tourism/comment-page-1/#comment-1535 Fri, 26 May 2006 11:38:11 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/2006/05/26/astronaut-skepticism-about-space-tourism/#comment-1535 Like I’ve said a million times, for an organization that supposedly has such a “can do” attitude a lot of it’s people seem to have a “can’t or shouldn’t do” attitude on personal spaceflight. I find it so incredibly ironic that an astronaut can’t see the appeal of space tourism. What the heck did he go up for? The pay and health plan? Why would anyone want to live in the Outback, or the Sahara? People do it though.

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