• Question: Do you think that your ever going to go to space?

    Asked by Anjelani to Niamh, Laurence, Ned, Colin, Aisling on 8 Mar 2016. This question was also asked by smed, 226spce27.
    • Photo: Niamh Shaw

      Niamh Shaw answered on 8 Mar 2016:

      Oh yes, absolutely. I also think that in your lifetime, you’re going to see a massive change in the way we perceive space travel as more and more companies offer trips to just about Earths atmosphere and companies like SpaceX and BlueOrigin strive to create re-useable rockets, which will drastically affect the cost of space exploration. I imagine that many of you will travel to space in your life time. And I have to believe that i will get to space, because if I don’t, then I will not make it happen.

    • Photo: Laurence O'Rourke

      Laurence O'Rourke answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      I don’t expect to go to space at least in the next 20 years because I am not an astronaut and it is very expensive e.g. to go to space with a Russian rocket costs about 20 million euro for a ride. That’s a lot of money.

      If these new “space tourist” rockets being built e.g. spacex, bluehorizon, which will bring people up into space and then return them a few minutes later really work, then maybe it will happen. I certainly would love to go.

    • Photo: Ned Dwyer

      Ned Dwyer answered on 9 Mar 2016:

      Nope – I don´t want to go. Very few people actually go to space, but hundreds of thousands work on stuff related to space.

    • Photo: Colin Shirran

      Colin Shirran answered on 10 Mar 2016:

      I think it would be possible in my lifetime yes. Although it’s more likely that I would go there through space tourism or something. Maybe an exodus to Mars? 🙂

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