<story><title>SpaceX Astronauts Begin Spacewalk, Putting New Spacesuits to Test</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-launch-polaris-dawn-space-walk-bfed7f84</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baseballdork</author><text>I can believe it. Dunno how reasonable it would be to risk having someone in an altered state of mind on the ISS. What do you do if someone has a bad trip or decides to make poor decisions?</text></item><item><author>brandall10</author><text>Esp. on longer ISS trips. I can&amp;#x27;t believe this hasn&amp;#x27;t already been a sanctioned experiment.</text></item><item><author>jMyles</author><text>&amp;gt; the first one to drop acid in space&lt;p&gt;Seems unlikely we&amp;#x27;ll ever definitely now, but I suspect that whomever does it next won&amp;#x27;t be the first (or second, or third).</text></item><item><author>stef25</author><text>&amp;gt; If you have enough money you can ring them up and say &amp;quot;I want to go into space&amp;quot; and they can make that happen.&lt;p&gt;To whoever wants to be the first one to drop acid in space, the doors are open</text></item><item><author>noneeeed</author><text>The interesting thing for me is how this mission underscore the difference between SpaceX and other space companies. SpaceX have become an entire commercial space agency, able to supply everything from the rockets and capsules, to the ground operations and even the space suites and to do that in a complete package.&lt;p&gt;If you have enough money you can ring them up and say &amp;quot;I want to go into space&amp;quot; and they can make that happen. That is a pretty big deal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KineticLensman</author><text>&amp;gt;  What do you do if someone has a bad trip or decides to make poor decisions&lt;p&gt;The space shuttle had a hatch that could be opened to vacuum and was actually padlocked shut on some flights where the mission specialists weren&amp;#x27;t trusted by the commander [0].&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;space&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;solving-a-nasa-mystery-why-did-space-shuttle-commanders-lock-the-hatch&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arstechnica.com&amp;#x2F;space&amp;#x2F;2024&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;solving-a-nasa-mystery...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>SpaceX Astronauts Begin Spacewalk, Putting New Spacesuits to Test</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/science/space-astronomy/spacex-launch-polaris-dawn-space-walk-bfed7f84</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>baseballdork</author><text>I can believe it. Dunno how reasonable it would be to risk having someone in an altered state of mind on the ISS. What do you do if someone has a bad trip or decides to make poor decisions?</text></item><item><author>brandall10</author><text>Esp. on longer ISS trips. I can&amp;#x27;t believe this hasn&amp;#x27;t already been a sanctioned experiment.</text></item><item><author>jMyles</author><text>&amp;gt; the first one to drop acid in space&lt;p&gt;Seems unlikely we&amp;#x27;ll ever definitely now, but I suspect that whomever does it next won&amp;#x27;t be the first (or second, or third).</text></item><item><author>stef25</author><text>&amp;gt; If you have enough money you can ring them up and say &amp;quot;I want to go into space&amp;quot; and they can make that happen.&lt;p&gt;To whoever wants to be the first one to drop acid in space, the doors are open</text></item><item><author>noneeeed</author><text>The interesting thing for me is how this mission underscore the difference between SpaceX and other space companies. SpaceX have become an entire commercial space agency, able to supply everything from the rockets and capsules, to the ground operations and even the space suites and to do that in a complete package.&lt;p&gt;If you have enough money you can ring them up and say &amp;quot;I want to go into space&amp;quot; and they can make that happen. That is a pretty big deal.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m not denying that intoxication leads to more bad decisions.&lt;p&gt;But sober people also make many bad decisions. A space ship needs to be resilient to bad decisions, and I assume&amp;#x2F;hope the ISS already is well fortified in that respect.</text></comment>