Billionaires on the ISS Weren't Expecting to Work So Hard
gizmodo.com
The first private astronauts, who paid $55 million to journey to the ISS, needed some handholding from the regular crew.
  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Shocking that a bunch of heroic captains of industry couldn't pick up 4 years of intensive, monk-like training after a dozen years of full time obsessively meeting the basic qualifications in a month of dicking around in a water tank.

    A not insubstantial proportion of the Astronaut corps never see space.