Would You Go to Space?

I want to offer a question I was discussing with my friends the other day. It seemed to me like a straightforward question, but I guess it has a lot of implications.

So the question is: If  the mission director of NASA walked up to you, while at work or in class, and told you, “we have an astronaut spot open on a mission to orbit the Moon and return back to Earth. We know you will pass all health and physical tests. Although, we cannot gurantee your safety but NASA will be behind you the entire way. We need to know if you will go.”

I think everyone knows what I would say. But I thought I had my friends figured out. Most were picking apart the question to implicate the cost to the nation of sending someone severely under qualified into space, the mission having no significance and going just to go. If they’re going to ask these question I will respond. You are chosen to go because they need more weight in the spaceship, and it needs to be a human because its more efficient than just weighing the ship down. You have no significance. We need to choose somebody and will, just thought we’d ask.

Cool scenario because I would steal the first car I found and drive to the launchpad at NASA and wait…