Kinda looks like how much money you have will be the
primary qualification in the future.
What I worry about with the whole space tourism push
is that the first flights will have mostly the
very rich or famous. But as early flights they
will also be the more dangerous.
A bad combination when it comes to public confidence
should an early flight go wrong.
I have to question whether NASA is the future of
manned space flight, I just read their new space suits
cost almost half a billion dollars just to design.
And they might not even use that design now.
But once a business plan can show money can be
made by putting people in space, then blank-check
financing can be secured, opening up space travel
in a big way.
But they have to figure out how to make money
putting people in space. Billionaires flying
is not a business plan with any legs.
When I read reports like this NASA manned space flight
looks like a giant black hole you toss money into
never to be seen again. Half a billion for a new
space suit~
NASA’S DEVELOPMENT OF NEXT-GENERATION SPACESUITS
At that time, NASA intended to initiate a hybrid contract
consisting of a single prime contractor for integration
and multiple awards for development and sustainment known
as the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Production and
Services (xEVAPS) contract. However, after 18 months NASA
canceled the xEVAPS RFI and issued a new RFI in April 2021
for the Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services
(xEVAS), significantly altering its approach for future
suit acquisition by purchasing services instead of equipment.
As previously discussed, to date NASA has spent more than
$420 million on spacesuit design and development, but the
new xEVAS RFI gives industry the choice to either leverage
NASA’s designs or propose their own.
Therefore, the extent to which NASA’s investments will be
utilized is unclear.
https://oig.nasa.gov/docs/IG-21-025.pdf
After $420 MILLION? Still UNCLEAR?
For just space suits, you have got to be kidding me!
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when he dictated his 1925 book Mein Kampf, to describe the use of a lie
so *colossal* that no one would believe that someone "could have the
impudence to distort the truth so infamously."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie