• Question: Can you get sunburnt in space? If so, does the burn change in anyway? 🌞🌞🌞🌞 I'm so sorry about the creepy sun emojis. Blame me for your nightmares 😂😂😂

    Asked by pandalivv2005 to Col Op, Elie, Floris, Jenn, RocketRich on 13 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Jenn Wadsworth

      Jenn Wadsworth answered on 13 Mar 2016:

      You can get ‘sunburnt’, in fact even more so in space as you’re not protected by the ozone layer (that filters out most of the nasty stuff here on earth)

    • Photo: Columbus Operations

      Columbus Operations answered on 15 Mar 2016:

      You absolutely can. And it is a different burn, indeed. Our atmosphere does a great job in protecting us from the “nasty ” part of the solar radiation (the UV), but if you are in space you are getting hit by it directly. Not nice. But that’s something we think about when building space suits, so the space suit is protecting the astronaut from the UV radiation as well. 🙂

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