Whiny Space Tourists Say They Were Too Busy on the Space Station

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A SpaceNews report published yesterday tells us what Larry Connor, Mark Pathy, Michael López-Alegría and Eytan Stibbe thought about their trip to the ISS, because the team attended a press conference to answer media questions. The trip was initially supposed to take eight days but was extended to 15 because of weather conditions on Earth. The extra time was helpful, Axiom’s paying customers said, but the crew still felt rushed.

Although the private astronauts paid more than $50 million each for the trip, it was definitely a working vacation. Some of the crew’s experiments included testing self-assembling robot tech, working with stem cells and creating holograms with Microsoft HoloLens. Michael Suffredini, president and chief executive of Axiom Space, said Axiom will better integrate future missions what with the other astronauts are already doing so nobody is disrupted. Suffredini wants future flights to last longer, too — up to 60 days, according to SpaceNews. It’s possible the company’s changes could make missions less jam-packed and lead to more time to stop and smell the solar system’s roses.

It’s easy to forget that astronauts do actual work and don’t just float around for fun. Many are tasked with important scientific research on their missions.

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Go in space, work like you’re back at McDonald’s during lunchtime. You coukd do that here richboy.