would you go into space?

[RandyS]

Yeah, but only after the test flight. Could I moon the Earth?

 

[marillion]

Nah... Not for me.. While I think it would be cool to float around and see the earth from so far away, I have a hard time on boats or planes sometimes so I don't think I'd handle it too well..

15 years, a wife and kids and 40 lbs ago.. Absolutely..

 

[PianoWizzy]

I'd love to, but I probably don't even have a remote desire to [lol irony]. Unfortunately, I have a terrible, terrible fear of heights. For example, friend surprised me by lifting me "damsel in distress"-style [I was NOT comfortable] and I was panicking demanding her, "EEEEEEEEK PUT ME DOWN PUT ME DOWN TWO FEET TOO HIGH TWO FEET TOO HIGH!!!!!!"

 

[ThankQ]

If there were a great and noble reason for me to go into space I would totally do it. With what I know of NASA's saftey record and how they rank money vs man, no, I would not risk my life on a 7-day NASA joyride.

Do you have the same reaction to getting into a car and getting on a highway? Your odds would be a lot worse.

I'd accept in a heart beat.

Actually, yes, I do. But getting from place to place is a necessary risk in today's world. I'm fully aware that cars are metal caskets. I have no desire to be a lonely shut-in.

 

[Mr. B]

I wouldn't be terribly interested in doing it today. Recent 'space tourists' go through months of training before they can take a flight. I don't want to invest that kind of time.

 

[drychlick]

thank you all for your input! i am reading about Christa Mcauliffe "i touch the future" the story of Christa Mcauliffe by Rob Hohler! She was a great person! but i feel she was just a p.r move and have no real job on the trip! And it blow up in there faces! leave space to the pro like the scientists love don

 

[RegFan]

Probably not at the current technology level, but I'd like to know more about the trip first. How long would it take? What would I do there? What are the odds of death? What should I do to prepare for the trip?

 

[ThankQ]

thank you all for your input! i am reading about Christa Mcauliffe "i touch the future" the story of Christa Mcauliffe by Rob Hohler! She was a great person! but i feel she was just a p.r move and have no real job on the trip! And it blow up in there faces! leave space to the pro like the scientists love don

Glad to hear your interest. I guess you could say I'm a Challenger buff, but more from the mechanical/engineering/administrative angle. I don't know much about the personal lives of the crew.

When I hear "Challenger" I don't think of McAullife, Scobee, Smith or Onizuka. I think of the names Feynman, Boisjoly, Thiokol, Kilminster and Rogers.

In the future, might want to be more careful with phrases like "blow up in their face". Kinda hit me like an old disgusting joke people used to tell about Christa McAullife's eyes.

But I'm glad new people are finding interest in Challenger. I view it as the Titanic of our time. As soon as we start to get cocky, nature puts us back in our place.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Yeah, but only after the test flight. Could I moon the Earth?

If you combine electrical engineering with space flight, you could earth the Moon.

 

[J.Ashmore]

Yes, I totally would and it's actually on my Bucket List. Too bad it's the one that I probably won't acheive in my life, but it's nice to think I could.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

At current technology - for a few hours. It would be worth the months of exercise and training, to see what this wonderful planet looked like.

If it was several hundred years into the future. Absolutely.

 

[Lookingglassman]

Nope.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Yes, I totally would and it's actually on my Bucket List. Too bad it's the one that I probably won't acheive in my life, but it's nice to think I could.

Well, they already have commercial space flight, all you have to do is get fabulously wealthy

Actually, technological advancements are practically unpredictable. We're leaps and bounds ahead of where we were ten years ago. Unfortunately, that unpredictability means we don't advance in expected ways. So we might have easy commercial space flight within our lives or we might just get a really cool iPhone, hard to say.

 

[SPOCKED]

Nope.

but.. we're already in space

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Actually, technological advancements are practically unpredictable. We're leaps and bounds ahead of where we were ten years ago. Unfortunately, that unpredictability means we don't advance in expected ways. So we might have easy commercial space flight within our lives or we might just get a really cool iPhone, hard to say.

Screw iPhones, I want my flying car!

 

[Alidar Jarok]

I barely trust people with regular cars and you want them to have the ability to crash through my second story window?

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I barely trust people with regular cars and you want them to have the ability to crash through my second story window?

Come to think of it, we already have a flying car of sorts: the helicopter. I want one.

 

[captcalhoun]

i want my goddamn jetpack!

 

[Jadzia]

i want my goddamn jetpack!

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S94QX4asVTI[/yt]

 

[RJDiogenes]

So we might have easy commercial space flight within our lives or we might just get a really cool iPhone, hard to say.

How about an iSpacePod?