| > but Dragon was huffing and puffing all the way into orbit and we were definitely driving and riding a dragon all the way up... How can this be interpreted as a negative thing, if anything if I were a school boy watching that it that would make me want to get involved and want to experience it myself! An astronaut talking about taking a Capsule (dragon) all the way to Space, and describing it that way... what could be cooler than that? Also worth noting that no one in involved in Space is expected to do a comfy job, much less being an Astronaut as it requires decades of rigorous physical and mental conditioning, training and exercise and psychological evaluation to just be a candidate in order to prepare you to live in an environment where even going to the bathroom, sneezing, or coughing could all kill you and potentially everyone in your crew in Space. Yi So-yeon did an interview at MIT earlier this year with Mar's Society [1] describing this exact situation, and even when having almost died upon re-entry due to a faulty heat-shield malfunction that messed up the trajectory of the landing that almost killer her and her whole crew she was the first to sign up for another mission! That's what an Astronaut is, they're cut from the same clothe as protype Fighter Jet pilots, where death was the most likely outcome; they're not 'normal' People and this doesn't phase them when confronted to do it again for a bigger purpose. Its why they're such exceptional Human beings and why they should be treated as such. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvXAy6YKWOU |
Its not about astronauts playing lift off buckaroo, its about developing viable travel and transport systems.