• Question: do you think people will ever travel the whole of space?

    Asked by Steve to Alan, Ciorsdaidh, Lauren, Leonie, Martin, Neil, Shuo on 6 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Martin McCoustra

      Martin McCoustra answered on 6 Mar 2018:


      I’m a great fan of science fiction… Star Trek included… and it would be nice to think that sometime, in the future (hopefully not too far in the future) we might make the first steps in expanding outward by building places to live and work on the moon, then Mars and then outwards. Being stuck on a single planet is a risky business… look what happened to the dinosaurs 63 million year ago!

    • Photo: Leonie Bole

      Leonie Bole answered on 6 Mar 2018:


      It’s definitely a cool thought but not a mission which I’m sure would be practical! We’d have to have some very fast space ships, efficient ways to refuel and dedicated astrounauts

    • Photo: Shuo Zhang

      Shuo Zhang answered on 6 Mar 2018:


      From my point of view, it will. Look at how tremendous progress human beings have made in the last 100 years. In 1903 Wright Brothers made the first flight in human history and one century later Elon Musk sent his red Tesla sports car towards remote Mars! Masterpiece, isn’t it? I am always amazed by the marvellous intellgence of us human.

    • Photo: Lauren Webster

      Lauren Webster answered on 6 Mar 2018:


      Have we discovered the whole of space? I mean we have our galaxy but there are millions more just like ours. We need a better spaceship!

    • Photo: Ciorsdaidh Watts

      Ciorsdaidh Watts answered on 7 Mar 2018:


      I can’t even contemplate what the whole of space would be…as close to infinite as I can imagine. Also, since the Universe is expanding (and expanding increasingly rapidly) the goal posts are always changing…tough challenge!

    • Photo: Neil Keddie

      Neil Keddie answered on 7 Mar 2018:


      I really hope that we can, I’d love to be able to go up to space, even if it was just into orbit. Maybe in our lifetime we will have people land on Mars.

    • Photo: Alan McCue

      Alan McCue answered on 9 Mar 2018:


      Yes we will travel space one day. the whole of it… probably not space is huge!!!

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