I would accept a trip to space if it was less than USD 100k. Perhaps two years worth of income.

Assume you would be staying there for a week.

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I'll wait until the price comes down to below 50k. That's for a orbital flight btw; none of this ballistic trajectory for 5 minutes above 60 miles, stuff!
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I'd gladly pay 100k for a full orbital or beyond flight, assuming I had the disposable income. None of the 5 minute ballistic junk though - that isn't worth much at all to me.

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Don't you mean ... how much would they pay me?

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Same here. I'd pay a few K for a suborbital, but not anything like 100K. An orbital though - well, that's been a major goal for (literally) as long as I can remember.

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I'm not so hot about low Earth orbit, but to fly to the moon or Mars I'd shave my head, empty my bank account, and give up pizza forever.

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I'd sell a kidney, a lung, and half my liver to finance an orbital flight.

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The last time I felt a warm fuzzy feeling, I was informed by my doctor that it was just gas.

Um... (Looks for the stash of loose change my kittens have been swiping...)

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Right now, commercial orbital flights are so expensive that only the superrich can afford them (still, with the historical slow pace of development, it's impressive that there are commercial orbital flights). If they could get things down to around the $100K level though, with perhaps a few days stay in something like a Bigelow space hotel, I think there would be a lot of people who would pony up the money for once-in-a-lifetime experiences. That wouldn't get them a lot of repeat business - for that, they would have to rely on the countries that want to get into manned space flight, but do it cheaply.

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<looks at her bank account and then looks at the sky>
<looks at her bank account again and then looks at her boy>

I'm happy to stay on earth.

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"The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge " - Bertrand Russell

I wouldn't. Not $100,000

Not 50,000

The orbiter would be exciting in a scientific prospect...

But I think if I had $100,000 to spare like that- I would pursue something that would pay off more scientifically than just the thrill of having "been in space."

I know. Im awful...

But all my life, since I was a wee lad, I've day dreamed about space and space travel.
The orbiter is usefull and good for humanity. But it's a baby step.

It's humanities of touching its toe in the water.
I'm looking forward to a return to the Moon. To Mars. Beyond. Almost to the point of being uncertain as to whether or not I'm glad I was born in this era; If I came too late (missed Apollo) or too soon.

I don't know if I'm making sense here.
But to me the orbiter isn't enough. Saying I went to space wouldn't be enough to justify doing it.

I'd LOVE to do it...
But it isn't enough.

If I was given a choice between being the bold astronaut who got to go up in the shuttle for two or three missions...
Or the guy who sits in a back room at NASA designing and developing projects to reach out into the solar system for life...

I would choose the latter.
Sure I can look up at the sky and day dream. Marvel and wonder like all our ancestors did, instead of having gone up for a couple missions. But in the long run...
Hmmm

ETA: I would also take a cut of that money and hire a typing instructor

"An astronomer- a man with his head in the sky and his feet on the ground- you could certainly call him an explorer, couldn't you?"
-From The Explorer of Burbank Street

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek

You would probably fail the medical, you would have to sell someone elses organs.(I know do not give Doodler any ideas.)

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Doodler, sounds like you have a volunteer...

I am very attached to my organs thankyou, plus I have a feeling an astmatic lung would not go for much.

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A regular Joe can't tell looking at it anyway...

There are probably a lot more easier targets for Doodler.

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Yeah but make sure its in left, right , left, right, order. You wouldn't want to be slanted when you walk.

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Possible, others use it for business already , especially those who badly needed money.

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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

"The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge " - Bertrand Russell

Or badly need a kidney...

Yeah.

Slight off topic.

Here in my country where poverty is felt, people from the depressed areas who resorts to selling their kidneys to the hospitals for them to get enough food they need , or to pay for the bills of their family who's been in the hospitals for months.

One kidney here sells at a rough price of P20K ~ $444.

Back to topic.

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"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

"The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge " - Bertrand Russell

I wouldn't pay for a one-shot trip unless I suddenly became a millionaire. But if I had the chance to settle in a permanent colony, I'd pay whatever I've got.

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My well deserved reputation precedes me.

However, even with my organs intact, I'd fail the physical. If I go, its with a full waiver of the physical and an ironclad indemification protection to the launch service.

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The last time I felt a warm fuzzy feeling, I was informed by my doctor that it was just gas.

Yes - that´s my view too I think I would demand at least 100K for the inconvenience. Plus a hefty insurrance.

I have a feeling that I will be going to space for free. Because I have a feeling a mob of angry people are going to one day, grab me, throw me in a rocket and blast me out into space.

Banishment...

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Honestly... in what? The new, super-duper ever-so-much-better-than-Apollo capsule? I think not. Besides, I get nauseated just tilting my head back. A week of puking doesn't appeal at all.

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I rarely vomit. But what are the chances the other passengers will have similar digestive restraint? Astronauts who are selected for a tendency not to vomit have vomited, so I wouldn't want to go up with a bunch of land lubbers.

Cool! I would love to go to space! So when I voted I picked the highest amount to pay! Well, would you like to go to space?

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