Comments on: English company buys land in Ohio for astronaut training facility https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/english-company-buys-land-in-ohio-for-astronaut-training-facility/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 03:28:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Edward https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/english-company-buys-land-in-ohio-for-astronaut-training-facility/#comment-1404761 Fri, 07 Apr 2023 03:28:02 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=93928#comment-1404761 LTC SDS,
You wrote: “About an half hour up the road from me!”

Since it is in commute range, maybe you can get a job there and help to train the next generation of civilian astronauts.
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pzatchok wrote: “And they will need a hundred or more space construction workers for the next 10 years of work.”

So this training facility could have work for quite some time, training ten or so astronauts each year.

Once they build rotating space stations, the astronauts may be able to routinely stay for a year, as they could rest and recreate in 1G or 1/2G sections of the station, perhaps avoiding some of the health problems associated with long stays in space.

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/english-company-buys-land-in-ohio-for-astronaut-training-facility/#comment-1404471 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 20:01:07 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=93928#comment-1404471 I could see it as a training base for civilian orbital space station construction. And they will need a hundred or more space construction workers for the next 10 years of work. Plus add in a small crew of on site managers and safety medics.

I just can not see NASA allowing their facilities to be used for it.

]]> By: LTC SDS https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/english-company-buys-land-in-ohio-for-astronaut-training-facility/#comment-1404363 Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:00:39 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=93928#comment-1404363 Oooooo! About an half hour up the road from me!

]]> By: Ray Van Dune https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/english-company-buys-land-in-ohio-for-astronaut-training-facility/#comment-1404360 Tue, 04 Apr 2023 23:56:14 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=93928#comment-1404360 I would think that SpaceX would be smart to specialize in the skills development of a select type of astronaut that they would be uniquely qualified to bring along… the kind that don’t eat food or drink water, and don’t need toilets or spacesuits!

]]> By: Dick Eagleson https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/english-company-buys-land-in-ohio-for-astronaut-training-facility/#comment-1404325 Tue, 04 Apr 2023 19:27:34 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=93928#comment-1404325 Whether or not the risk of starting up this facility pays off is going to be crucially dependent upon whatever decisions SpaceX makes about procurement of training for the people who will be executing its lunar and Mars projects. If it decides on total or substantial autarky, such training facilities as this will have to scramble for what is most likely going to be quite limited non-SpaceX business for some time.

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