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Draft Guidelines for Space Tourists
IZ Reloaded writes "Draft guidelines for space tourists have already been written in the United States." From the article: "A paying customer will now be able to fly into space once he has been informed and accepts the risks of space travel. There are several factors to take into account, depending on whether a passenger is taking a speedy "pop top," up-and-down, suborbital voyage, versus climbing onboard space machinery to roar off into orbit for an extended stay."
Russia has had guidelines for their paying space tourists for a number of years:
1. You must have a pulse (optional)
2. Your check for $20,000,000 must clear before you launch whether you are a popstar or not.
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1) take enough clean underwear with you...
For one, if you are in a critical crew position, your health problem could endanger the life of others. Secondly, on an orbital mission, your health problem could cause the mission director to have to make a difficult choice, Diamandis said, between your possible death or ending a billion dollar mission early, presuming that returning to Earth could save your life.
Good to know the lawyers are getting a head start writing their closing arguments.
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What would be the best way to manage the medical requirements for travel?
Would a sort of license work? This would save being rechecked for frequent flights.
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Once this has properly taken off (bad pun) with regular orbit or sub orbital flights, the benefits of having cheap reqular orbital research opertunitys is grand for smaller projects who could not afford to pay for time on one of the NASA missions or simmilar.
This could herald in a new era in more than just rich recreation , if this is as sucesful as i can only imagine it will be , then im sure we will now begin to progress at a far greater rate in these areas.
ps: this joke just writes itself here on slashdot "virgins in space "
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Take the metal tab and insert it into the buckle. Pull tightly across your waste.
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That's a good idea. You don't want shit flying around once you're in free fall.
It'll be interesting to see how far the operators will go when performing the physical. Imagine the liability implications if they send a pregnant woman up into orbit and she later has a child with birth defects...
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Notice you must be at least 4ft 5in tall to ride. 1. Please keep your arms and legs in the vehical at all times 2. There is no eating, drinknig , or smoking while the ride is in operation. 3. Remain seated until the ride has come to a complete stop. 4. Exit to the left, thank you for riding space mountain.
Doesn't it seem a little bit pointless to just do one of those "pop top" flights into "space" since "space" is kind of an arbitrary thing? I would think it kind of an expensive indulgence just for some dubious bragging rights. Orbit I can understand; really really high and back down, not so much.
..wants to take over space too eh?
Anyway the rules:
Rule 1: Please don't take photographs of the spy satellites.
Rule 2: No one is to visit the moon landing place, until NASA checks out the first flight to there.
Rule 3: There will be no sex in space thanks.
Rule 4: All taxes must be fully paid before departing.
Rule 5: No snack food is to be released into zero G.
Rule 6: No smoking near the hydrogen gas.
Rule 7: Intoxicated individuals will be flushed out the airlock.
Rule 8: Please shake carefully when using the toliet facilities
Rule 9: Any use of the Klingon language will result in a severe beating
Rule 10: One way tickets shall no be sold, even to cult members.
Which country would the guidelines be tied to by law? The country that launched the spacecraft, or some "Internation space law"?
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Take any medical disclaimer form and replace the medical terms with space terms.
/. on his PDA while in the WC may forget you exist. By signing here you waive our liability.
You may die. This procedure could kill you. We may break your teeth. We may destroy or remove the wrong organ. The doctor may have to take a crap and distracted by
Why is it now "officially" allowed. Last time I checked the US was NOT the world and no one but them has to stick to any rules they make unless supported by an international agreement or group.
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I wonder what the inflight movie will be? How bout "Apollo 13"?
Flight Eng: System failure level 2 switching to main aux for overide.
Passenger: No its just a faulty sensor , shutdown tank three no overide needed.
Flight Eng: Are you sure?
Passenger: Yes proceed with the shutdown.
Flight Eng: Check , shutting down tank three
Whew, they didn't tell us you were an AE
Passenger: I'm not , but I stayed in a Holiday Inn Express last night..
This is one time though that I hope the lawyers DO get heavily involved just so that one lawsuit doesn't bring this whole fledgling industry down in one fell swoop.
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The (US) government does not (YET) require licences for race cars [thanks for bringing this oversight to our attention], but the various racing associations (Formula One, NASCAR) certainly do.
That being said, I certainly agree with the rest of your comments. The trouble is, your comments are reasonable and thoughtful, governments rarely so.
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I just hope they've put "Don't Panic!" in a large friendly letters on a cover.
I wonder whether this was put together taking into account the recent, varyingly successful, lawsuits against earth-bound adventure tourism operators who provided white water rafting and rock climbing and who, despite all the no-liability clauses in their paperwork, manage to surprise the world by killing their customers periodically?
Given that at least some of those lawsuits were successful (if memory serves), one wonders how much value escape-from-liability contracts really have, unless the US signs a bill similar to the no-lawsuits-of-fast-food-providers into law. Even then, they'd still be taunted by various international courts.
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though if you crack the window it would be gone pretty quick...
The same was the case when aeroplanes first came on the scene. The people who could not afford to fly (who were in the vast majority) simply were religated to much cheaper forms of transportations such as buses and trains. The same will happen here. As technology gets refined and more companies are competing in the marketplace, things will get cheaper.