What other planets can we travel to?
Five places spacecraft will visit soon, and five places we need…
- Mercury. ESA’s BepiColombo craft is set to launch a year from now in October 2018 and head toward our innermost planet.
- Mars.
- Europa.
- Psyche.
- Ganymede.
- Uranus.
- Neptune.
- Kuiper Belt / Third Zone.
Which planet is best to visit?
The planet Saturn: truly massive and stunningly beautiful with its rings. It’s also home to amazing moons like Titan. The planet Saturn is probably the best known and most beautiful planet in the Solar System. Saturn’s rings are far more extensive and more easily seen than those of any other planet.
What planet do you like to go why?
In the movie ‘Intersteller’, the director has beautifully shown that no other planet in the universe is more beautiful and life-supporting than the planet earth. However, if ever out of curiosity or compulsion I would get an opportunity and resources to visit any other planet it would be MARS.
How does the moon feel?
What did it feel like to walk on the moon? The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It’s totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders.
Which planet would you like to visit if you were an astronaut?
Mars, because it’s made of ketchup. If I was an astronaut I would like to visit Mercury because it is brown. If I was an astronaut I would like to visit Saturn because I want to drive a car on the rings. If I was an astronaut I would like to visit Saturn because of the rings.
Why do we need more astronauts?
As NASA continues to expand human exploration in our solar system, we will need more than the currently active astronauts to crew spacecraft bound for multiple deep-space destinations. NASA’s astronauts currently work as scientists on the International Space Station—a laboratory that orbits Earth approximately 240 miles above the planet’s surface.
Why do astronauts take pictures of Earth?
Astronauts love to take pictures and videos of Earth from the window of the space station. Seeing Earth in new ways gets them thinking about what makes our planet unique and special. You can take pictures from your window, too. Think about what makes your street, neighborhood or city unique and take note of the patterns you see.
Who was the first person to go to space?
The first astronaut team, comprised of seven men, was selected in 1959. Since then there has been a series of milestones in the history of human spaceflight, including: 1961: Russian Yuri Gagarin was the first human to fly in space. 1961: Alan Shepard was the first American to fly in space.