• Question: if you had the choice would you go up to space

    Asked by cshiels to Eleanor on 11 Nov 2013.
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      Eleanor Holmes answered on 11 Nov 2013:

      Oof, that’s a tough one.

      If I could be teleported up to the International Space Station into a suitably pressurized chamber with normal gravity and a window – Absolutely!

      But if I had to do the years of astronaut training and go up the normal way…I have a very low tolerance for nausea which astronauts feel in low gravity. I also get very motion sick in cars so I can’t imagine being cramped on a shuttle with me would be very pleasant. So no, I think I would give it a miss.

      Many people feel the experience is worth the pain, but for me I’ll wait until The Doctor stops by with his TARDIS.

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