Will you go into space?

[Deano]

It's not as crazy as it sounds. Between Virgin Galactic, Stratolaunch & various other carriers now looking to win supply contracts for the ISS, depending on your age, there is a good possibility that spaceflight tourism could be around before you kick the bucket so I'm curious, once affordable & open/available to public -- will you be going into space?

[chew]

Affordable is all that is stopping me.

[Falcore]

Most hell yes.

Wait till it becomes financially viable to mine asteroids etc then things are going to change

[Rips]

Most definately, Im spending my 401k on it, we get that right?

[michael]

Faark yeah, but naa probly not, just can't see it happening, considering ive only been on planes for work, can't see space flight happening for me.

[Desmo]

This has been a dream since I was a child, if I can afford it before I die, I'll do it.

[Hazelnutty]

This has been a dream since I was a child, if I can afford it before I die, I'll do it.

Ditto

[GUE57]

What Desmo said.

Faark yeah, but naa probly not

YES or NO?!?!

[Drasius]

This has been a dream since I was a child, if I can afford it before I die, I'll do it.

[michael]

What Desmo said.



YES or NO?!?!

Not a dream of myne, maybe if I won it in a raffle.

[Skut]

On my to-do list, once I stop procrastinating. Living is about experience after all, and seeing Earth from space with your own eyes?... that would be a memory you would take to your grave.

[Fastgirl]

Yep. Hell yep...and a fuck yeah. Definately.

[jjgres]

I'm ready to go to another planet. Chicks dig pioneers.

[DreamTheater]

I'd definitely do it if I could afford it, viewing Earth from out in space would look amazing!

[Spock]

I am not sure if the high altitude sub-orbital parabolic flights that the private companies are offering really qualify as 'going into space'.

[Desmo]

Zero gravity = space.

[Blazon]

you should definitely go Deano...just remember not to pass out

[Spock]

Zero gravity = space.

Then all you need is a flight in a 727.

[Desmo]

That isn't zero gravity, you are falling with no reference as to the speed as the plane is falling too.
Nice try though!

[Spock]

That isn't zero gravity, you are falling with no reference as to the speed as the plane is falling too.
Nice try though!

Sorry Desmo, but that is all you get with any suborbital flight. The plane or 'space ship' flies a parabolic path so that you feel weightless for short periods. Some planes fly higher parabolas for longer periods but it's all the same really.



The only real weightlessness is from orbital flights (eg. space shuttle, Soyuz or space station) or lunar or interplanetary space travel (eg. Apollo to the moon).