Astronaut Reality TV Series Set to Begin!

[Orbinaut Pete]

Oh my word, now I'm DEFINITELY applying for this! :speakcool:

www.parabolicarc.com/2009/11/23/astronaut-reality-series-set

 

[garyw]

As long as it's not like that previous "reality" show that was a complete fake and had to make sure that they only picked idiots with no science/space based knowledge in fear of them working out it was a setup.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

As long as it's not like that previous "reality" show that was a complete fake and had to make sure that they only picked idiots with no science/space based knowledge in fear of them working out it was a setup.

Word is that this one is genuine:

http://realstarwalker.blogspot.com

http://twitter.com/RealStarwalker

www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=100000502491033

 

[Star Voyager]

This is rediculous ! You have hard working astronauts who travel all over the country and don't get to see their families much because of training for their mission. Not to mention they have spent almost most of their life preparing for this by either college doctorate or military or both. On the other hand, you have some poor shmuck who doesn't feel like paying 25 million to hitch a ride on the Soyuz for a week. Instead they figure they could do it through a reality show :thumbsdown:.

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

This is rediculous ! You have hard working astronauts who travel all over the country and don't get to see their families much because of training for their mission. Not to mention they have spent almost most of their life preparing for this by either college doctorate or military or both. On the other hand, you have some poor shmuck who doesn't feel like paying 25 million to hitch a ride on the Soyuz for a week. Instead they figure they could do it through a reality show :thumbsdown:.

Well, if someone is going to offer a ride into space, then all I can say is that I won't turn the opportunity down. :lol:

But I completely agree that if some “poor schmuck” wins it, then it will do more harm to the space program than it will good.
In the end, it would be up to the public (i.e. you and me) to make sure that the opportunity goes to someone who really deserves it.

If it's done right, it will be good.
But if it isn't done right, then it has the potential to be extremely bad.

 

[Star Voyager]

Unfortunately I don't think the general public would make the right decision.

 

[jinglesassy]

i vote martin to go! but i agree this could do real harm to the space program or good depends on the choice

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

Unfortunately I don't think the general public would make the right decision.

Agreed. If it were left up to the uninformed public, they would just select some absolute moron who can barely spell his own name.

But the idea is that the program producers (who DO genuinely care about the space program) will only select people to go on the show who deserve to be there. They will be looking at things like qualifications, commitments, capabilities, etc.

So that way, whoever the public vote for, they will all have earned their right to go into space.

 

[clickypens]

While it's still up in the air as far as how this will turn out, at least it seems that the world is opening up to (manned). LCROSS was all over the news, and STS 128 and 129 each got a segment in the local news even here in Mexico.

I'd love to see the general public get excited about space again, maybe the space agencies around the world would get a little bit more funding.

 

[daniash]

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[SiberianTiger]

To the show initiators' information, Roscosmos stopped offering space tourists flights simply because the Americans have booked all the vacant seats for the next several years until they build a flightworthy capsule.

On other hand, they still can enroll on a General Spaceflight Training - providing more work for Yuri Gagarin Training Centre's personnel is a good thing.

 

[Ghostrider]

How will it work? Each month there's a vote and the most unpopular gets thrown out of an airlock?

 

[clickypens]

"I'm sorry, the tribe has spoken. You've been voted out of quest".

 

[Arrowstar]

It looks real. It really sounds like they want to get the word out about spaceflight and the work that NASA, ESA, and the Russian Space Agency. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[n72.75]

Go Martin!!

This looks cool if it's real.

 

[Unstung]

I just skimmed it and found, 'Top Gear style...' so, I hope it's like that. Better not be some garbage that is filmed in space (May be possible even in space).

Actually, contests in space? I rather just see [the more exciting parts] daily life aboard the ISS and in the Soyuz.

 

[tblaxland]

To the show initiators' information, Roscosmos stopped offering space tourists flights simply because the Americans have booked all the vacant seats for the next several years until they build a flightworthy capsule.

My understanding was that that only applied for seats to the ISS, ie, the US bought all those seats. Apparently capacity was still available in Soyuz manufacturing to be able to support separate non-ISS orbital missions. RIA Novosti reports it is so, anyway: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20091002/156327887.html

 

[Artlav]

not like that previous "reality" show that was a complete fake

The one where they explained lack of zero-g by saying that they were not in deep enough space?
What was it called, if it even was?

 

[tblaxland]

What was it called, if it even was?

Space Cadets

 

[Orbinaut Pete]

The Starwalker Show website is now online!

www.starwalkershow.com