Would you spend £17K to visit space?

http://www.skyandspacetravel.com/space_programme.html



23KM up and the edge of space for a measly £17K.IN a MiG.

People I know spunk that on HP to get a BMW.

Of course I would

and you ?

If the dole would pay for it,some sort of back to work scheme perhaps.

If I had the money I wouldn't think twice about doing this.

Probably!

No.

Oh yes.

Sadly, I suspect I would have to pass some sort of medical first and pay a huge insurance premium. But, if it was just 17K and a few bottles of red with something to smoke...

I suspect there would be a very long waiting list of richer, better placed people anyway.

As much as I fancy a ride in a MiG29, 23Km altitude is nowhere near space.

[eta] I didn't realise the service ceiling of the MiG29 was so high. That's 5Km above the Eurofighter and 4Km above the F22. Syria has over 40 MiG29s according to Wikipedia, things could get somewhat interesting.

If I had that much money to blow on something fun, I'd use it to visit every place on earth I'm wanting to visit.

without a second thought. While listening to Sagans 'pale blue dot' talk on a music playing device

That isn't shhpace

£17k to fly really fucking high in an old russian plane, no thanks.

For space, yes without a doubt. Not for this tho.

Not if I was a multi-millionaire.

.. but then I wouldn't visit Australia either ...

If I had the money I would. My family takes great delight in pointing out when ever Brian Cox is on the telly as I once expressed jealousy
at him for getting to fly in a lightining.

Definitely. I wouldn't pass the medical though

Every time we've come up against MiG-29s we fucking butchered them, left and right. USAF F-15s did 6 in GW1 and 6 in Kosovo. The Cubans used one to shoot down a Cessna though.

Also that advert is bullshit, no Fulcrum has ever been to FL750.

you're a septick?

Wouldn't have much control up there.

Supposedly a Mig-31 has been above that FL.

No. I meant we as in NATO.

I would never have the kind of money that I could throw at a venture such as that and not miss it, So no.

I would keep the 17K in my savings account and continue to save for a ride on the space elevator.

You planning on living to the ripe old age of 200 then?

There are a lot of other places I want to go first, and £17k could get me to about half the list.

17k not to fly into space? Screw dat.

If you did that in a Mig you could see them all much more quickly.

That's not even approaching the "edge of space". £17k would be a bargain if it was space though.

Provided they were all within a couple of hundred miles (within that budget).

At best 23km is a barely controlled coasting arc (even with optimum conditions like sitting in a high pressure system). It's starting to get borderline for U2/SR71. X-15 and the shuttle used gas RCS to maintain control at these altitudes.

Everything's shit in space.

Apart from the view

The Dragon Lady very rarely ventured above FL700 on ops. At that height it would stall at about 95 KIAS but enter mach buffet at 103 KIAS (the 'Q Corner') making flying it in that regime a sweaty browed, buttock clenching ordeal in extreme concentration.