# How Many of You Would Like to Ride on the Next Shuttle Mission?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 2, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302 "2003-02-02T14:16:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/1 "2003-02-02T14:16:19Z")
There’s going to be folks out there screaming that we should shut down the manned space program now that we’ve lost another seven astronauts. I, for one, am more than willing to ride the next one up, even if it’s a 100% certainty that the same thing would happen again on the flight. Hell, I’d go if the only way I could get up there was to be stuffed in a spacesuit and strapped onto a Delta rocket. How about the rest of you folks? Would you go? Even if you knew you’d never return to Earth alive?
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### Author:  [@SCSimmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCSimmons)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/2 "2003-02-02T14:19:12Z")
Yes, absolutely.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/3 "2003-02-02T14:22:02Z")
Sign me up.
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/4 "2003-02-02T14:37:54Z")
Crew member # 3 reporting for duty, I think there is room for 4 more.
(hoping the 60 second limit between postings don’t bump me out)
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/5 "2003-02-02T14:38:57Z")
Actually that would be #4, with 3 seats remaining, didn’t count Tuckerfan.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/6 "2003-02-02T14:41:14Z")
I’d go.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/7 "2003-02-02T14:45:24Z")
When do I start?
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/8 "2003-02-02T14:46:11Z")
Room for one more on the next flight, Hurry up.
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### Author:  [@Eli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eli)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/9 "2003-02-02T14:48:34Z")
I’d rather wait a couple decades and do the same but return alive.
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/10 "2003-02-02T14:51:54Z")
Sign me up!
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### Author:  [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/11 "2003-02-02T14:56:54Z")
Ok we have our 7.
Everyone else would have to wait till the following shuttle.
I call shotgun!
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/12 "2003-02-02T15:08:06Z")
Ooooh! Ooooh! Me! Me! Me!
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### Author:  [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/13 "2003-02-02T15:25:18Z")
Count me in! Talk about the ride of a lifetime!!!
CJ
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### Author:  [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/14 "2003-02-02T15:38:47Z")
If I go, do I get to eat that yummy, yummy freeze-dried astronaut ice cream?
I do?
Sign me up!
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### Author:  [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/15 "2003-02-02T16:00:22Z")
7? pfffft! There’s plenty of room in the cargo bay. I call a window seat!
Somebody better make some damn windows in this cargo bay!
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### Author:  [@Venoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Venoma)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/16 "2003-02-02T16:12:38Z")
I WANNA GO I WANNA GO I WANNA GO.
_sits on Chandeleur’s lap so she can look out the window too_
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### Author:  [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/17 "2003-02-02T16:16:36Z")
Only if I can pogo :boink boink: 😛
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### Author:  [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/18 "2003-02-02T16:17:24Z")
Me, too. I’ve always wanted to go.
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### Author:  [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/19 "2003-02-02T16:20:33Z")
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> \*Originally posted by japatlgt \*
> \*\*Only if I can pogo :boink boink: 😛 \*\*
In zero-G you wouldn’t pogo - you’d just po. Then your head would hit the ceiling.
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### Author:  [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-of-you-would-like-to-ride-on-the-next-shuttle-mission/152302/20 "2003-02-02T16:38:57Z")
Damn these first-come-first-serve flights. I guess I’ll have to go on the waiting list for flight #2.
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