• Question: have you ever been in a rocket

    Asked by Callum15 to Scott on 14 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Scott Melville

      Scott Melville answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      Nope, but I did build and launch a small rocket once 🙂 It only got a few hundred meters into the air (a little higher than your average firework), but it was pretty cool.
      Very few people go up into space in a rocket – there have only been a few hundred astronauts EVER.
      But Virgin Galactic and SpaceX are working on jets which can go up into space, so that soon you’ll be able to just buy a plane ticket to space – then we can all go up to visit outer space 🙂

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