Beside being worth the thrill, it might help move the human race forward.
I’m in.
I’m in as well!!
Just tell me where to report. Oh, and hopefully I’ll be able to make shuttle to ground phone calls every day or two so I can update my boss on when I’ll be well enough to come back to work… 
Eric
hmmm, once in a lifetime experience that only a handful of the human race get to do.
I’m in…
I’d be willing to go, although bringing myself up to the physical fitness level of an astronaut might take some time.
(I wonder if they gave John Glenn a break on that?)
Just how fit do you really have to be to be an astronaut? It’s not like you have to run a traithalon daily… the two big stressors are the ride up and space walking, with working in vacuum apparently the more difficult of the two as far as sustained physical effort goes.
Alright, I’ll pass on the spacewalk, just get me up there already!
Barring cardiac/blood pressure problems, or some weird bone-fracturing disease, I’d say the average human could ride the shuttle. Most of the guys going up are in their 40’s, they aren’t 20 year old Olympic athletes.
I doubt they needed to give Mr. Glenn a break - he’s an extraordinarially fit senior citizen. He’s always taken excellent care of himself.
You betcha I’d go up.
Hell, I’ve been ready to go since I was four.
How to be an astronaut from NASA’s site.
The number of all manned orbital flights since Gagarin is now somewhere around 240 or so, I think.
Does anyone know how many of the first 240 airplane flights killed everyone aboard?
Does anyone know how many of the first 240 transatlantic boat trips ended in disaster?
I don’t want to minimize yesterday’s tradegy, only to put it in a relevant perspective.
Not only too heavy, but it didn’t have the necessary docking equipment to hook up with the station. cite