Re:Does anyone else (Score 1)

The fact is probably that taxpayer money isn't enough to fund those research projects anymore and they need more bored-out-of-their-mind-on-earth billionaires to take money out as 'conditioned donations'. The many of the past failures of the NASA spaceshuttle program was blamed at least partially on inadequate funding because NASA had to move fund from the spaceshuttle program to help fund other smaller projects. If the money, at least some of them, can be used to help provide safer spaceshuttle program and hopefully save the lives of at least some astronauts, then I'd deem it worthwhile. As for those 'untrained' passengers, I bet spaceshuttle providers will certainly not let anybody they deemed unsafe or a possible operation hazard onboard no matter how much they pay for the ticket--which is in no ways comparable to the cost of the entire shuttle itself and the lives of everybody else onboard. So, yup, no baby onboard sir.

-N