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Space Tourist Grounded

Posted by michael on from the non-refundable-ticket dept.

Midnight Thunder writes "There is an article over at the BBC stating that an NASA is refusing to allow a Russian-backed US businessman onto ISS. Maybe the 'I' doesn't stand for international?" The article suggests NASA would let him go if he had more training, which means he'll be up there eventually...

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  1. Major reasons for NASA by boarder · · Score: 4
    NASA has a very valid and major reason behind not letting him go up (yet). He has virtually no training and the Russians want us to train him at our expense. He pays Russia 20 million and we have to spend millions to train him. What do we get out of it?

    Wasted space. He is taking up space and money on a scientific mission. Not only that, but he is in no way prepared should any technical problems come up (not an engineer, scientist, or even mechanic). Maybe on a mission when we have everything running smoothly we can take some tourists, but we are still building this and testing it. It is just not the right time.

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    IANAL, but I play one on /.
  2. Sharing and being nice to people by wishus · · Score: 4
    In kindergarten, I learned how to share and be nice to people.
    • Don't hog the toys
    • Don't call other people names
    • Try to see the other person's point of view
    Everyone's at fault here, and they're acting like children. The Russians make a decision without consulting their teammates. The other teammates throw a temper fit, stomp their feet, and refuse to cooperate. Then the Russians resort to name calling, saying things like "The Americans oppose the flight by their co-citizen because they want to show that they are the bosses who run the ISS project."

    It's like kindergarten for big kids.
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