NASA to open International Space Station to tourists

I'll sign up for a Mars trip. The ISS? No thank you. Orbit shmorbit. I wanna go to another planet.

 

Great, so now even if you go to *space* you can’t avoid tourists?!

 

Can I get a smoking room up there?

 

Been there, done that.

 

I'm not going unless I can bring my bass and my bike. Upright bass.

 

Has the Space-X "customer" picked his travel companions yet?

Does NASA. (Or ISS oversight or whomever) require a level of competency for such a person? It would seem that the price is quite reasonable to a whole lot of folks I wouldnt trust to roam around on such a complex and somewhat cobbled together piece of hardware. What do the other countries involved have to say about this? One moron who doesn't follow the rules and it isn't just NASA losing.

 

Funny you would mention this. As i read the OP, my minds eye was flooded by an image of a corpulent young squire with his hands on a giant red lever marked “SELF DESTRUCT TRIGGER. DO NOT PULL UNLESS TUMBLING OUT OF CONTROL TOWARD EARTH” as he looks around to see if anyone is watching him.

 

The flight price is not inclusive of the compulsory training you must pay for and pass.

 

Well, don't forget that you have to pay $60M to get there. That reduce the number of possible candidates.