Comments on: The first tourist in space, a woman from Britain https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-first-tourist-in-space-a-woman-from-britain/ Thu, 12 May 2011 19:24:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: LINO https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-first-tourist-in-space-a-woman-from-britain/#comment-18371 Thu, 12 May 2011 19:24:42 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=9010#comment-18371 Bob published this conclusion after several sessions of waterboarding.

]]> By: Clark Lindsey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-first-tourist-in-space-a-woman-from-britain/#comment-18348 Thu, 12 May 2011 16:15:03 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=9010#comment-18348 Oh come on, Bob. In no other context would someone be called a tourist who had to beat out 18000 applicants according to training and background and then compete with 3 other finalists for a year and half to be finally selected. Sharman was one of the handful of civilian non-professional astronauts to go to space before Tito. There was also the Japanese journalist Toyohiro Akiyama, Garn and Nelson, and the civilian payload specialists.

A tourist “selects” him or herself to go somewhere and then makes it happen with his or her own resources. That happened first for space with Tito’s flight and was what made it so significant. Other tourists then “selected” themselves to follow him. It was impossible for anyone to select themselves to go to space if they had to get there the way Sharman did.

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