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Forum: Commercial Space - Military Space
Topic: 2nd-gen astronaut Richard Garriott's flight to ISS

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by Robert Pearlman on 11-10-2008 05:03 PM [QUOTE]Originally posted by KenDavis: [b]What's the point of a back-up if they don't back-up?[/b][/QUOTE] Does Spaceflight magazine cite a source for that statement? Daisuke Enomoto's back-up, Anousheh Ansari, did fly, though she had to pay the full ticket price. Back-ups only (initially) pay the training cost, a few million dollars, which is not anywhere close to the full fare. Perhaps that is what Spaceflight magazine was referencing. As to why someone might pay $3 million just to train, Space Adventures' CEO Eric Anderson gave some of the reasons while announcing Halik as Garriott's back-up. <BLOCKQUOTE>[i]"Through his participation as a back-up crew member, Nik will experience first-hand how our clients train for spaceflight and he, himself, will be certified as a 'fully-trained cosmonaut' and will be named to an official space mission crew, a distinction that less than 1,000 people have ever had."[/i]</BLOCKQUOTE>
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