• Question: Will you ever send someone to space to explore the universe or help make a drone or spaceship to explore it?

    Asked by P.S.A Flash to Monique on 13 Nov 2015.
    • Photo: Monique Henson

      Monique Henson answered on 13 Nov 2015:


      I hope we will! I’m sure one of the space agencies, for example ESA or NASA will eventually have programs for human space exploration. There are already people in space – on the space station (this website tells you how many at any point). The furthest away we’ve ever sent a person is the moon, but it’s possible that in the next 20 years or so we might start sending people to Mars.

      We already send unmanned rovers and probes out into our solar system (pretty similar to drones). Recently New Horizons has flown past Pluto (it took 10 years to get there!), Curiosity is still exploring Mars and Philae landed on a comet.

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