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Space Tourist Standards
Snuffleupagus writes: "I found an interesting story at cnn.com about NASA's new standards for civilian space travel. It looks like if you have a history of drinking, lying and cheating you won't be going into space anytime soon, no matter how much money you have. Looks like I'll be stuck here on Earth for awhile." The guidelines for future space tourists are on NASA's site.
It looks like if you have a history of drinking, lying and cheating you won't be going into space anytime soon, no matter how much money you have.
That kills the potential CEO and politician markets...
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looks like you all can not go.
They should also include the ban on people who cannot figure out the presidential ballots. so, that cuts out flordia as well.
No space for you!
Y not the other way around, launch all the garbage up there and make earth a cleaner place :)
NASA's new social engineering department...
It looks like if you have a history of drinking, lying and cheating you won't be going into space anytime soon
Well thank GOD that's a new policy, as those traits fit just about every Mercury-Gemini-Apollo astronaut!
Uh, yeah, we wouldn't want to have anyone who uses "intoxicating beverages to excess" to be on a space station with a bunch of Russians.
So I'm out. :-) But at least I have the consolation of knowing that Hollywood is out too.
We should build one huge spaceship and put all our hairdressers, telephone sanitisers, insurance salesman, management consultants, TV producers and public relations executives into it. Send them off to another planet somewhere. I'm sure they'll do just fine building a new civilization.
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.. you can always experience the rush of an piloting a US nuclear submarine during an emergency surfacing...
>looks like if you have a history of drinking, lying and cheating you won't be going into space anytime soon, no matter how much money you have.
Sounds like a slap in the face of George W. Bush. I *knew* NASA was full of liberals and hippies!
It looks like if you have a history of drinking, lying and cheating you won't be going into space anytime soon. Unless you're a celebrity or stinkin' rich, of course. And if you're both you might as well be strapped into that cockpot right now. If, to pick a name at random, Michael Jackson wanted to go into orbit, can you imagine NASA saying NO to the publicity? I can't. (although there is something to be said for the possibility of the National Enquirer headline of "NASA Refuses to Launch Well-Known alien Back into Space!" Bad Publicity as a front-page spread is a good thing) --Triv
Doesn't that leave out the entire Russian population?
"It looks like if you have a history of drinking, lying and cheating you won't be going into space anytime soon, no matter how much money you have."
i sure hope they have different rules when it comes time to colonize...otherwise we'll have a hell of a time setting up a gov't on mars..."
dude.
Better yet...
"and membership or sponsorship in organizations which adversely affect the public's confidence in the space station or its partners. "
if you have a history of drinking, lying and cheating
I'm gonna stake my claim on the boolean "and". I haven't cheated anyone.
So how can you be successful enough to afford the trip without lying, cheating, or stealing somewhere along the way?