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Robert Pearlman
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posted 06-25-2020 02:13 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Please use this topic to discuss Space Adventures' 2023 flight of two spaceflight participants on a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS). One of the mission participants will have an opportunity to conduct a spacewalk outside the space station.

dom
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posted 06-25-2020 11:52 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for dom   Click Here to Email dom     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm sure it'll be an amazing experience for whoever it is but I think rich space tourists spacewalking outside the ISS cheapens it all a little in my eyes.

Robert Pearlman
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posted 06-25-2020 01:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Maybe it helps to consider that the spacewalk gives a professional cosmonaut another chance to go EVA that otherwise might not have happened.

SkyMan1958
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I personally am very happy that "civilians" now have the possibility to do an EVA. Given the cost of LEO flights I'll never have a chance to do it, but at some point in the future I assume that some schmoe like me will be able to do this for the equivalent of the cost of a current mid-level vacation.

My one concern is that EVA's are inherently risky, and I'd hate to see a fatal accident sometime in the next 10 years that could push back the whole "civilians in space" developmental trend by many years.

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Seems to be indicative of Russia’s desperate need for a revenue stream with the loss of their price-gouging scheme of the past decade.

Richard Garriott negotiated for this opportunity when he flew years ago, but was turned down.

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