you can be an astronaut without having a college degree???

Originally Posted by Fred J. McCall[_3_]

bob haller wrote:

On Jun 10, 7:07*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
bob haller wrote:

musk has said at least the first manned launches will be run by his
astronauts.......

Oh, he's said no such bloody thing! *Those launches will be 'run' by
the same folks running the unmanned ones.

the flight crew astronauts will be musk employees not nasa astronauts

Uh, so? *Sounds just like the NASA model - "My vehicle, my
astronauts."

How's that different, again?

whens the last time private industry launced stuff to ISS

Irrelevant, actually. *But you keep wriggling and trying to move the
goalposts.

It was a FIRST, and will be a first for manned launches to ISS,
commanded by musk control and musk astronauts

Now substitute 'NASA' for 'MUSK' and tell us how it's different,
again. *Note that the Russians will also sell you tickets to ISS if
you have the money to buy them. *After all, that's how NASA is getting
THEIR astronauts up these days.


NASA is a government agency.

Russia soyuz is a government agency

Musk is a private for profit company.


Keep trying to drag those goalposts, Bobbert. Ask yourself how US
astronauts currently get to ISS.

Hint: They buy tickets from the Russians at around $63 million per
seat.


obvious this entire discussion with you is a waste of time.


You have to say something sensible for it to be a 'discussion',
Bobbert. You have consistently focused on "Musk astronauts". That's
irrelevant to what is really revolutionary, which is private provision
of something other than satellite launch services. UNMANNED Dragon is
the revolutionary bit. Putting people in it is merely evolutionary.

--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
--G. Behn

More often than not the loons are the ones who start insulting
the other people
At one point only the governments had the ability to launch some satellites
Dragon is not revolutionary , it is just an evolution