• Question: Do you think commercial space travel will become possible for everyone? Or will you have to be in good physical condition to travel?

    Asked by Ben C to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Columbus Operations

      Columbus Operations answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Joao: Yes, I think it will be possible. There are many companies working on this and I hope someday it will come true.

      However, space is hard! It is one of the hardest and most dangerous things we, as humankind, can do. So it takes a lot of smart people working on this for a long time, designing, building and testing every single piece of the spacecrafts, to make sure they are safe.

    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Virgin Galactic sponsored research into this and they found older people with slightly poorly hearts where safe to fly on their spacecraft- so i think everyone will be able to go.

    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 20 Jun 2016:

      You’d have to have decent enough fitness to fit into the seat and not have heart conditions – similar rules to a roller coaster. Commercial suborbital spaceflight will make short trips possible in the near future with a small taste of microgravity and weightlessness and best of the best: views of the Earth during the flight!

      I have friends working at Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic and Swiss Space Systems and Copenhagen Suborbitals and they are keen to get more people into space!

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