amy lynn thompson is a writer space dot com. she expects more space tourism to become available. i think that despite is sort of different from some of the other commercial flight for you just have a lot of rich people paying for a ride into space because they are doing very valuable research. and they have spent more significant time training that is actually on par with professional astronaut future is that there will be several stations in orbit. so maybe axiom is planning one and then they will have a lot of crude flights to go up there. so researchers more every day, people will have a big opportunity to go. hollywood act who will smith has been banned from the oscars for 10 years for slapping committee. and chris was on stage the board of the academy of motion, picture arts and science, which organizes the awards ceremony made the decision after meeting to discuss disciplinary action with has apologized for his actions and resigned from the body . the act to hit chris rock after he joked about his wife's shaved head, which is a result of the hair loss condition alopecia. ah

now amy lynn thompson is a writer of space dot com. she says she expects more commercial flights into space 3 made accessible in the future. the significance as the flight is something that nasa and be facts and as other commercial partners have been working towards, you know, where they are able to take commercial industry and put it into space. and so this is the 1st step into a broader world for that. so it's very exciting. all 4 crew members have banned more than a 1000 hours training for this. and so they go to different location. they spend a lot of time in space at headquarters and hawthorne california, where they get to play in the dragon simulator. they get to learn all of the systems. they also have their be sued and they learn how to use those and operate them. and then they also spend some time at nasa johnson based center, so they get to do a lot of the, i assess training and other work that the actual nasa astronaut gets. the dragon for the most part is autonomous. it's controlled by mission control at basic. in hawthorne

but amy lynn thompson is a writer space. don't. com and she joins us live now from orlando florida by skype . am. hi there amy lynn. it's nice to have you with us. what's the significance of this flight to you? yeah, i think so much for i'm having me. so this is, i'm the significance is this flight is something that nasa and space accent. it's other commercial partners have been working towards, you know, where they are able to take commercial industry and put it into space. and so this is the 1st step into a broader world for that. so it's very exciting in terms of the people who are on boards, amy lynn and tell us a by the trading they have to go through it is it's not just turning out with your carry on suitcase and jumping on board it more complex than that. yes, so i'm all for crew members. have spend more than a 1000 hours training for this. and so they go to different locations. they spend a lot of time at space, ex headquarters in hawthorne california, where they get to, you know, play in the dragon simulator. they ge