Posts: 44129 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-25-2020 02:13 PM
Please use this topic to discuss Space Adventures' 2023 flight of two spaceflight participants on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). One of the mission participants will have an opportunity to conduct a spacewalk outside the space station.
dom Member
Posts: 881 From: Registered: Aug 2001
posted 06-25-2020 11:52 AM
I'm sure it'll be an amazing experience for whoever it is but I think rich space tourists spacewalking outside the ISS cheapens it all a little in my eyes.
Robert Pearlman Editor
Posts: 44129 From: Houston, TX Registered: Nov 1999
posted 06-25-2020 01:53 PM
Maybe it helps to consider that the spacewalk gives a professional cosmonaut another chance to go EVA that otherwise might not have happened.
SkyMan1958 Member
Posts: 898 From: CA. Registered: Jan 2011
posted 06-25-2020 05:16 PM
I personally am very happy that "civilians" now have the possibility to do an EVA. Given the cost of LEO flights I'll never have a chance to do it, but at some point in the future I assume that some schmoe like me will be able to do this for the equivalent of the cost of a current mid-level vacation.
My one concern is that EVA's are inherently risky, and I'd hate to see a fatal accident sometime in the next 10 years that could push back the whole "civilians in space" developmental trend by many years.
328KF Member
Posts: 1272 From: Registered: Apr 2008
posted 06-25-2020 06:21 PM
Seems to be indicative of Russia’s desperate need for a revenue stream with the loss of their price-gouging scheme of the past decade.
Richard Garriott negotiated for this opportunity when he flew years ago, but was turned down.