Show NOCs: OIG report: Should you charge extra for NOC tours?

Thu Jan 7 18:39:13 UTC 2021

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:36 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 7 Jan 2021, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > almost all of this seems like ... really not worth the time for
> > external people to bother with.
> > which is maybe why: "Sure, you wanna visit? pay me" (Oh, now you dont'
> > want to visit? ok, cool!)
>
> I'm imagining a bunch of MBA's at large carriers thinking, gee the NOC is
> treated as a cost center. How can we make the NOC a profit center?
>
> I know -- Let's sell NOC tour tickets!

yes, and really this ends up limiting the number of tours probably as
an outcome, so win/win.

> On the other hand, NASA (or SpaceX) I would still go on a tour of Mission
> Control during a launch (geek out)

once you pay a billion to send up some metal into space I figure you
paid for the tour :)