{"id":10649,"date":"2021-05-19T14:55:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=10649"},"modified":"2021-05-19T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T18:55:16","slug":"the-new-right-stuff-is-money-and-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=10649","title":{"rendered":"The New \u2018Right Stuff\u2019 Is Money and Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rich people are heading to space, and they\u2019re changing what it means to be an astronaut.<\/p>\n

Source: The New \u2018Right Stuff\u2019 Is Money and Luck<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Similar argument about Mt. Everest climbers.\u00a0 The rich can afford to be essentially carried up the mountain.\u00a0 Probably need to pass some minimal health checks.<\/p>\n

Also, as space travel gets more routine, don’t need ex-fighter pilots; witness latest SpaceX Crew 1; looks nice & comfy, with little to do but watch the pretty displays and pray something doesn’t go super wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rich people are heading to space, and they\u2019re changing what it means…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[140,223,74,274],"class_list":["post-10649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-paul","tag-rockets","tag-space","tag-spacex","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}