I can't believe people just GO TO SPACE. Like they willingly walk into the rocket and strap in and are like yes. Okay. Shoot me into the abyss guys.
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It's just a fancy elevator basically. Can't get over elevators though. You step in to the room, wait a little bit, and step out on a totally different floor!
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Yes! Put me on top of the largest controlled explosion ever so that I can be in hard vacuum. But then again, if someone gave me a ticket I'd punch it every time
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Right now I Apollo 13 real time they are transferring guidance data to the LEM so they can complete shutting down the Command Module. These guys know they are truly effed and are scrambling to save themselves. The huge staff of engineers solving problems are saving everything
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This is my lifelong dream. Hopefully, space tourism will be a common thing in a few decades.
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When I was younger this was a really exciting thought. Now it's terrifying. It's unclear what changed.
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Imagine someone, at one point in time, looked at the moon and said "wonder how we can go there, let's make some calculations."
And then they actually got people to sign up for it.