Comments on: What they think of space tourism in Savannah

By: Sam Dinkin

Sam Dinkin — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:51:44 +0000

I think she should spend the money buying space flights for people of all means. That’s what I’m doing.

By: Peter Shearer

Peter Shearer — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:50:43 +0000

How could it possibly BE selfish? She already had the money in her bank! Of course the bank was loaning that money out spurring the economy but making a sizeable profit for themselves (ahh, bankers and their yachts) but now that full amount of money is spurring the economy (Russian economy though…). Of course this in turn is what’s keeping the Russian space program online as well as the International space station (let’s face it, NASA is crippled even with the shuttle “up and running”). The science conducted on the space station helps make medicines better to HELP people. Etc etc…

By: Donald F. Robertson

Donald F. Robertson — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:51:39 +0000

I agree with Chance.

In addition, by buying commercial space services, she _is_ helping both the larger space endeavor and the interests of commercial space.

That said, even if I had $20+ million, I probably would not fly to the Space Station. I’d love to go, but the six months it would take out of my regular life (and away from my friends and partners and the garden and that cats) to do the training would be an insurmountable barrier. (That circum lunar trip, however, might be another story!)

— Donald

By: Chance

Chance — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:51:07 +0000

I smell the familiar wiff of hypocrisy. I wonder how much money these critical people make? I wonder how many own an SUV they don’t need? I wonder how many bought a big screen tv instead of giving the 2K to charity? I wonder how many went out to eat last night instead of eating a sald and giving their dining out money away? I am not a conservative, but it is her money and as long as she has paid her taxes and doesn’t hurt anybody else with it, she should be able to do as she wishes.