• Question: CAN I GO TO THE MOON

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      Asked by marsisthebest:} to Ruth, Rob, Luke, Laura, John on 20 Jun 2016.
      • Photo: Laura Finney

        Laura Finney answered on 20 Jun 2016:

        Maybe one day?! the sky is the limit as they say and maybe you could be the next Tim Peake if you work hard at school 🙂
        Maybe one day in the future they will do holidays to the moon (I hear Richard Branson is working on it)

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        Robert Williams answered on 20 Jun 2016:

        Anyone can go to the Moon, but they need the right stuff to do it.
        They need a rocket to get them there … and back
        They need the training to be able to live in low gravity
        They need the life support to keep them healthy in the Moon’s enviroment
        They also need a lot of money to finance the above … eg Elon Musk etc.

      • Photo: Ruth Patchett

        Ruth Patchett answered on 20 Jun 2016:

        If you want to you probably need to get working at it straight away. One of the obvious options would be to become an astronaut which involves studying science or engineering at university being fit and joining NASA or a similar space agency! Even then you probably wouldn’t get sent to the moon as we already know quite a lot about it and we don’t really send people there any more. The other option is to save up a lot of money and hope in a few years time we have space tourism with trips to the moon.
        Are you sure its the moon you and want to go to when your name suggests you like Mars better? Should I be asking which moon you want to do to?

      • Photo: Luke Williams

        Luke Williams answered on 21 Jun 2016:

        Short answer: yes.

        Long answer: The chances of anyone going to the moon are quite low, simply because of how few people go. In particular there have been precisely zero British astronauts on the moon. What is good news though is that slowly there is more of a change towards putting a base on the moon, and returning to regular missions to the moon. If the UK can be persuaded to spend a bit more cash on space travel and take a greater interest in manned rather than unmanned spacetravel, then things start to look up for you.

        The traditional approach is to spend time as an officer in the military, be exceptionally fit and healthy, and have some science and engineering skill. then you might be selected for astronaut training, and after passing that, you may get selected for a mission – good luck!

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