Astronaut Nicole Stott says people who are skeptical about seeing a billionaire complete the first civilian spacewalk need to calm down… because it’s actually for everyone’s benefit.
Nicole, who did her own spacewalk in 2009 on the International Space Station, told TMZ… billionaire Jared Isaacman Funding a historic spacewalk is good for humanity in the long run and will help us get to Mars.
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In Nicole’s view, private space exploration is vital to achieving our goals of going further into space than ever before, and while the average person can’t afford a trip to orbit now, it will likely become affordable in the future.
Nicole points out… about 50 years ago, the average person couldn’t afford a plane ticket… and she believes space travel will evolve and become more common in the future.
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As we reported… Isaacman made history Thursday with your own Neil Armstrong moment, becoming the first civilian to experience limitless space as part of the Polaris Dawn mission.
Billionaires are clearly obsessed with the final frontier — Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos launched into space in July 2021 — and Nicole says the public should be interested in space exploration… for both entertainment and science. She says it will help us learn how we can improve society and our planet.
Isaacman was strapped into the SpaceX spacecraft during his spacewalk, and Nicole says the entire thing was safe. She says there’s no more danger to a civilian than there is to a NASA astronaut, since private expeditions include the same training as NASA missions.
Nicole was an astronaut on the ISS and the Space Shuttle, so she knows what she’s talking about… she even wrote a book about her experiences, “Back to Earth: What Life in Space Taught Me About Our Home Planet — and Our Mission to Protect It.”
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Nicole is also an aquanaut — someone who explores or lives underwater for extended periods of time — and she’s in London right now preparing for a big event tonight… “Uniting sea and space: Global nonprofits take over Piccadilly lights to champion ocean conservation.”
The bottom line for Nicole…let go of the cynicism and look to the future.