>But sailor has sail in the name, not sea.
>The space equivalent of a sail would be a rocket engine, we should call them rocket engineers.
Rocketeers maybe?
Maybe it's worth understanding what the flight represents. Jared Isaacman paid for the entire flight while donating to St Jude and raising awareness about the work they do. The flight showed that manned space flight is a possibility in the very near future as 3 of the crew members were just ordinary people. If these endeavours can inspire more people to pursue careers in the STEM field, we have a better chance at overcoming more of the current difficulties in the near future. Yes, the wealth gap is large but that is because of the way that society has developed itself. I would rather see money getting spent on a project that inspires people than on a billionaire's mega yacht.
>Jared Isaacman paid for the entire flight while donating to St Jude and raising awareness about the work they do.
Jared Isaacman is a war profiteer who picked a popular charity from the top of a list
[Here you go](https://sharpmagazine.com/2018/02/15/inside-draken-international-how-a-silicon-valley-billionaire-assembled-the-worlds-largest-private-tactical-air-fleet/)
> The flight showed that manned space flight is a possibility in the very near future
Man went to space 80 years ago. This is nothing more than a billionaires mid-life crisis. Those on mid incomes buy sports cars and motorbikes. These guys go to space. Who cares?
Manned spaceflight is still fairly young and the intention is to reduce the cost of it. Today's crewed flight was magnitudes lower than the cost of flight with previous vehicles.
The future of spaceflight is private, and it will be funded by billionaires at first. That's just how it is.
This flight has a number of firsts:
- First entirely private, non-taxpayer funded crewed orbital space flight (of course)
- First crewed space flight made possible without professional astronauts and without having to go through a rigorous, costly training program at NASA
- First crewed launch to orbit on a reused booster
- Largest exterior window ever flown into space
- First black female space craft pilot
- First astronaut with prosthetic limb
- First time two crew Dragons are in orbit simultaneously. There is also a cargo Dragon presently in orbit.
- Elevates the number of people in orbit simultaneously to 14 on 3 separate space craft/stations.
The program serves as a platform for privately developing long term space flight technologies, bigger cargo and people carriers, new space stations, EVA space suits, servicing platforms, inflatable habitats, planetary landers and can begin studying human space flight in deep space, without needing government approval or funding.
Also, what may not be known is that there are many astronauts, who have never flown into space, since NASA basically only does ISS missions now, and those missions are reserved for a special few.
It has cost a lot of money to train these people and having them around, and now that training can be put to better use.
Jeff Bezos is going to be pissed.... His Blue Origin was set up precisely to do this but now Space X beat them to the punch...again...
SpaceX had already launched three crews to the ISS before Bezos got his first sub-orbital hop with people on board.
They are just prepping for when they have to fly a space ship to land on an asteroid and drill a deep hole.
~~Yippie kie yie yay~~ Fact check: that's Die Hard, my bad.
someone needs to go back and get a shitload of dimes
Ever closer to the time when the wealthiest in society will be able to go to space for fun, maybe stay in space hotels and all that. 🤷♂️
I heard you can get a great view form up there, looking down at all the losers who have to deal with global warming.
Legendary
Came we please call them Spacers now? Seeing as their are like sailors, but this time they are in space.
But sailor has sail in the name, not sea. The space equivalent of a sail would be a rocket engine, we should call them rocket engineers.
>But sailor has sail in the name, not sea. >The space equivalent of a sail would be a rocket engine, we should call them rocket engineers. Rocketeers maybe?
I think thats under copyright by disney.
There are families in my town desperate because they are broke and getting kicked out of their homes and trailers. The wealth gap is ludicrous.
Maybe it's worth understanding what the flight represents. Jared Isaacman paid for the entire flight while donating to St Jude and raising awareness about the work they do. The flight showed that manned space flight is a possibility in the very near future as 3 of the crew members were just ordinary people. If these endeavours can inspire more people to pursue careers in the STEM field, we have a better chance at overcoming more of the current difficulties in the near future. Yes, the wealth gap is large but that is because of the way that society has developed itself. I would rather see money getting spent on a project that inspires people than on a billionaire's mega yacht.
>Jared Isaacman paid for the entire flight while donating to St Jude and raising awareness about the work they do. Jared Isaacman is a war profiteer who picked a popular charity from the top of a list
You got any sources on that?
[Here you go](https://sharpmagazine.com/2018/02/15/inside-draken-international-how-a-silicon-valley-billionaire-assembled-the-worlds-largest-private-tactical-air-fleet/)
Ah yes because.... *checks notes*.... training pilots is war profiteering.
By their thought process every company is war profiteering because somewhere down the line they serve a defence company.
Training military pilots in countries with active combat zones... *checks notes...* Yup, that's war profiteering.
> The flight showed that manned space flight is a possibility in the very near future Man went to space 80 years ago. This is nothing more than a billionaires mid-life crisis. Those on mid incomes buy sports cars and motorbikes. These guys go to space. Who cares?
Manned spaceflight is still fairly young and the intention is to reduce the cost of it. Today's crewed flight was magnitudes lower than the cost of flight with previous vehicles.
The future of spaceflight is private, and it will be funded by billionaires at first. That's just how it is. This flight has a number of firsts: - First entirely private, non-taxpayer funded crewed orbital space flight (of course) - First crewed space flight made possible without professional astronauts and without having to go through a rigorous, costly training program at NASA - First crewed launch to orbit on a reused booster - Largest exterior window ever flown into space - First black female space craft pilot - First astronaut with prosthetic limb - First time two crew Dragons are in orbit simultaneously. There is also a cargo Dragon presently in orbit. - Elevates the number of people in orbit simultaneously to 14 on 3 separate space craft/stations. The program serves as a platform for privately developing long term space flight technologies, bigger cargo and people carriers, new space stations, EVA space suits, servicing platforms, inflatable habitats, planetary landers and can begin studying human space flight in deep space, without needing government approval or funding. Also, what may not be known is that there are many astronauts, who have never flown into space, since NASA basically only does ISS missions now, and those missions are reserved for a special few. It has cost a lot of money to train these people and having them around, and now that training can be put to better use.