What do you do if you're an Apollo astronaut and can't get life insurance for your historic, but incredibly dangerous, trip to the Moon? Fall back on the ghoulish tastes of stamp collectors, of course.
Wednesday 21 July 2010
Astronaut insurance
What do you do if you're an Apollo astronaut and can't get life insurance for your historic, but incredibly dangerous, trip to the Moon? Fall back on the ghoulish tastes of stamp collectors, of course.
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I just always figured there was one of those insurance machines like they used to have at the airport someplace in the NASA complex.
I would have thought one of the major insurance companies would have written policies for the astronauts at the same rate as airline pilots.
If they survive, they're pitchmen.
If they don't, the money would come out of their advertising budget.
I thought astronaut insurance would be something a planet is required to buy before it can go explore the universe: you need to take out at least 20,000 quatloos' worth for each space explorer before you will be permitted to buy stickers for your spacecraft. Or else something like flood insurance: a low, low monthly premium will cover you in the event of damage from rampaging spacemans.
As a matter of fact, I think that I'll keep thinking of it like this. When it's a contest between the correct and the amusing, I tend to go with the latter.
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