Billionaire Space Shots

[MoKelly]

Not an issue. You don't have the funds anyway.

Is this response indicative of how informed you are before you post?

MoKelly

 

[Jstpssng]

Off topic somewhat but how about a "hundredaire" space flight?
As a kid I was always ordering stuff from Edmund Scientific (in Barrington NJ I think).
I ordered a weather balloon then spent the day using Mom's vacuum cleaner, hose connected to exhaust, inflating it.
Finally it was "YUGE!"
Then what to do. It wasn't a windy day but hard holding onto, of course no lift but bulky.
We lived in the country but off of a major highway so I decided if I could get it down our long driveway across the road was my best friend and he'd be amazed. Somehow I made it...cars blowing horns, people yelling! Luckily my friend was home and amazed...until it snagged on a telephone pole ripping it apart, but well worth it.
Always curious if you had a big pasture and enough helium to lift your weight less 10 pounds strapped to a body harness what it would be like. Not enough lift but close enough you'd feel weightless.

Not the same but similar... a former coworker had a huge kite, the type that would pull a water skier. She was a little tiny thing and when a few of us went to watch her fly it, another coworker had to hold her belt to keep her from taking off.

 

[MossRoad]

Back in the 60's one of our neighbor's dad built a HUGE kite. He was an engineer. They took it out to a field and it picked the dad up off the ground. He had to let it go. I'd guess it was close to 8' tall. He retrieved it and tried a few more times. He just didn't have the body weight to hold it down.

 

[Cougsfan]

Quite a few years ago in our area some young people made a kite big enough for them to ride in. It didn't go well, a couple of kids were killed.

 

[rekees4300]

BEZOS BECOMES ASTRONAUT

 

[MossRoad]

Just like a ride at the fair!

 

[sd455dan]

from listening to the after flight interviews
Billionaires are finally seeing The Pale Blue Dot -just up close

Long distance images provided by Voyager 1

 

[MoKelly]

It was 10 1/2 minutes. Less than one cup of coffee drinking time. Hurry up and rush.

I watched on TV. Pretty cool.

I thought the best was when the rocket retuned and made a perfect landing exactly in the center of the circle it left.

That (to me at least) was incredible.

MoKelly

 

[stuckmotor]

I hope the Billionaire space flights are more successful than the shuttle disasters.

 

[mapper]

Wouldn't it be amazing if just one of those guys thought - world hunger, cancer or something like that was just as exciting.

Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffet. Folks still dislike and don't trust them. Go figure.....