Timeline for Will a Dragon v2 ever bring 7 astronauts to the ISS?
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| Aug 8, 2020 at 11:15 | comment | added | uhoh | This question may be hard to answer at the moment, but there is no reason to close it for attracting primarily opinion-based answers because it obviously hasn't. Instead we can just wait for a fact-based answer to be posted though that may take some time. Granted it's been years, but this relevant: What's best to do about questions that might not be answerable for a few months? | |
| Aug 7, 2020 at 21:03 | comment | added | peterh | @Joe Wow, so is it also in my first language, too! But it was only because the CCCP era. Today it is does not sound badly any more, and young people does not even know the word already. Possibly 30 yrs later, "rusky" will be unknown for the USA people, and "white" will be pejorative. | |
| Aug 7, 2020 at 19:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 10, 2015 at 6:20 | vote | accept | Timo | ||
| Aug 9, 2015 at 17:27 | comment | added | Joe | It's always seemed strange to me that the Russian word for "Russian" is a pejorative in English -- as if "American" were a Russian pejorative term for Americans. | |
| Aug 8, 2015 at 18:07 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @kimholder: It's a pejorative. | |
| Aug 8, 2015 at 18:05 | comment | added | kim holder | @LightnessRacesinOrbit i've always thought of Russkies as a nickname, like Aussies, Kiwis, Yankees, and Canucks. I can think of other national nicknames that are often used with ill intent, but they don't need to be. Maybe those could still be reclaimed though, like many gays and blacks have done with two names i will not mention | |
| Aug 8, 2015 at 13:31 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @Dan: Do we really need the offensive epithet "Russkies" on an international website? Or, for that matter, at all? Also, by that economic logic NASA would be begging for tourists too. | |
| Aug 8, 2015 at 0:25 | comment | added | Dan | @jamesqf Looks like you're quite right. I still get the impression that NASA is not enthusiastic about it though. They must have loosened up a little, but notice that all 7 went via the Russians, and the page you linked mentions that the Russkies aren't planning on sending anyone else up as a tourist for the foreseeable future. I wouldn't be surprised if they change that tune for more foreign currency though, given their economic situation. | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 23:46 | comment | added | jamesqf | @Dan: In fact, per Wikipedia there were 7 tourists who visited the ISS, one visiting twice: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 17:52 | comment | added | Dan | @neelsg, Dennis Tito is I believe the only tourist to visit ISS, and NASA was not happy about it. The Russians let him come, over NASA's strong objections. NASA would not let him in American capsules without escort, if I'm not mistaken, so he was otherwise limited to Russian portions of the station. I know I'm probably taking your comment too seriously though. Dragon v2 could definitely bring down the cost of space tourism in general! | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 16:01 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSpaceExp/status/629683693829931008 | ||
| Aug 7, 2015 at 15:05 | history | edited | Deer Hunter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2015 at 14:01 | comment | added | neelsg | I think it will get quite a bit cheaper to go to ISS as a tourist once Dragon V2 starts to make regular trips | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 13:14 | answer | added | geoffc | timeline score: 21 | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 13:04 | answer | added | called2voyage♦ | timeline score: 15 | |
| Aug 7, 2015 at 12:22 | history | asked | Timo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |