• Question: Kids allow in the space station

    Asked by 235tch45 to Vinita, Kirsty, Col Op, Charlie 🚀, Andrea on 22 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      At the moment only adults get to fly in space, there have been no children in space at all.

      Maybe in the future, when you can fly in space as a tourist with commercial flights like Virgin Galactic, children might be able to go into space- I think that would be the coolest summer holiday ever!

    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 23 Jun 2016:

      The youngest person in space so far was 25 years old. Normally astronauts are over 30 years old when they fly, definitely for the ISS. You need to have finished university and worked for a few years to go to the space station so it would be difficult to go as a kid.

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