Future Astronauts via Virgin Galactic?

[clmason]

Just curious of any forum members are lined up to fly on Virgin Galactic?
Better yet, anyone paying for their flight with earning from TSLA?

 

[Mario Kadastik]

A friend of mine has a ticket. First Estonian to space has pics of him with wife and Branson at a vip event for ticket holders etc

 

[VolkerP]

Not to make your friend feel bad, but I would consider myself more as a passenger than an astronaut on a trip with Virgin Galactic's spaceship. :wink:

 

[Mario Kadastik]

That's why it's him and not me I don't consider it a true space flight because you're only going to cross the 100km region for a short time and it's more like a checkmark that you got there... For me the proper space tourism will be a few full rotations around the earth at the minimum so that I can stare out of the viewport and see the blue marble pass by. Until that happens I'm not going Then again, I'll need some serious cash as well to get to such a holiday...