Would someone have to pay you to take a trip into space or would you gladly go for free?

Question

Would someone have to pay you to take a trip into space or would you gladly go for free?

Answer 1

I would pay THEM! Going in to space is my one big dream.

Answer 2

heck just tell me where to sit(in other words gladly go for free)

Answer 3

I'm no fool.  I wouldn't go, no matter what.  Not safe and no real reason.

Answer 4

One way or round trip?

Answer 5

They would have to pay me!!! It takes months of prep for a space flight. I can't afford to volunteer a half a year or possible more.

Answer 6

I'd pay with my LIFE to go into space.

Answer 7

OMG definitely go for free!! i would love to travel into space!!

Answer 8

well...id like 2 be payed, but i am pretty sure i wood go. id like to learn things more alfluent with science and space. so....yes i wood go. my age might be a problem tho but id give it my best try.

i know of some of the risks but im for a challenge, almost anything 4 science i wood do, and 4 man-kind.

im only 13-

Answer 9

Heck, I'd go at a second's notice!! Who wouldn't? I mean, I know quite a few people who wouldn't, but they must be insane.

I'd pay someone to take me!!!... (if I had any money)

Answer 10

You could not pay me enough to ride the Shuttle - too dangerous.

If the mode of transport were reasonably safe - I know it can't be 100%, nothing can - I' gladly go and work my tail off up there for science, gratis.

Answer 11

At this point, you couldn't pay ME enough to go. Getting blown up on re-entry and having my body parts scattered across 5 states isn't the way I'd like to go.

However, in the future when technology improves, I'd gladly go for free. I'd love to go to space, and above all else see the sun Eclipsed by Saturn and its rings. It certainly would be a beautiful sight beyond all value.

But, for now, no way I'd go. I mean, NASa does have an excellent track record. Hundreds of trips to space with only a couple of disasters. However, many of you don't even realize how many times NASA has come close to other disasters. Far too dangerous to put my life on the line. But, maybe in the future we can buy cruise lines into space and be safe in the meanwhile.  

Answer 12

You couldn't pay me to go under these circumstances. The vehicles are barely good enough to make the trip under perfect conditions MOST of the time. Airplane travel can boast of a per capita per trip safety record better than that for automobiles, but I don't think that space travel yet can.

The problem here is that the vehicles are public property and the astronauts are employees of a government agency. If a spaceship blows up, no particular commercial interest has been slammed by a possibly crippling loss of investments, surely to be followed by much embarrassing legal investigation and maybe lawsuits.

In other words, negligence and bad administrative judgment creep into everything NASA does, simply because the people making the policies and the decisions know "it's not their @ss" if something goes badly wrong. As far as I know, the only way to fix a government agency so that it pays the proper attention to details are laws that say, in effect, that one senior NASA administrator shall be executed for each astronaut who dies as the result of agency negligence or poor judgment.

As things are, though: no, I would not fly any US space vehicle into space, not even for free, not even if paid, because the spaceship could blow up and kill me, and the people whose job it was to make sure that didn't happen could laugh about it, secure in the knowledge that my death would not cost them anything personally.

Answer 13

I'd pay them!

If a NASA administrator came into my room right now and said "We want you on the next shuttle but we need to leave NOW" I wouldn't even get dressed.

Its the chance of a lifetime! When I'm on my deathbed that is one of the things I would like to be reflecting on.