When do us folk get a chance to go into space ?
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The other alternative is to flag down the next passing UFO ..it seems the little buggers are more than willing to give anyone a free ride...you just wont be able to remeber it..
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We, meaning you? Or "We" meaning humans?\n\nUnfortunately, you'll be dead by the time we establish a human presence.  Humans can travel to Mars, but "living" there can mean many things: If you define "living" there as simply showing up and staying for a day, then 2030 is a good estimate.  "Living" meaning "Colonizing" is well into the NEXT century!
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Virgin Galactic is starting to take reservations and deposit commitments for the first year of operations. The ticket price has been set at US$200,000 and the minimum, fully refundable deposit to secure your spaceship seat is US$20,000.\n\nAnyone can go if they have enough money. Russia made American businessman Dennis Tito the world's first space tourist. Tito flew into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that arrived at the International Space Station on April 30, 2001. The second space tourist, South African businessman Mark Shuttleworth, took off aboard the Russian Soyuz on April 25, 2002, also bound for the ISS. Lance Bass of 'N Sync was supposed to be the third to make the $20 million trip, but he did not join the three-man crew as they blasted off on October 30, 2002, due to lack of payment.  \n\nCurrently, the only vehicles that can take you into space are the space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz, both of which are terribly inefficient. Each spacecraft requires millions of pounds of propellant to take off into space, which makes them expensive to launch. One pound of payload costs about $10,000 to put into Earth orbit.
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Space tourism exist these days. As of this year (2006) there have been four space tourists to the International Space Station, each spending more than US$20 million aboard a Russian supply mission. The Russian Federal Space Agency can make everyday people's dream come true as long as the  prize is right and as long as the health and other requirements are met after the training.☺\n\nCheck out this link which contains lists of different organizations or links to what you are looking for:\nhttp://www.umich.edu/~lowbrows/links/index.html#clubs
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I think they can if they are mature enough to handle it.  I personally wouldn't. I see you enough at home...I have to see you here too? People DO need space weather they think they do or not.
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You could join NASA, but I don't think they'll let you in until you at least learn to spell. Anyway, they might send you to the moon, but you would just have to come back again eventually.
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Well the sun doesn't become a red giant for a while so maybe we've made some friends by then and can go hang out near their home planet if it hasn't also been ruined.  It is likely that we will be much better at terraforming and travel so hoping over to a good canidate planet where we wouldn't be destroying life that already existed there shouldn't be too difficult a task.
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Well, the youngest astronauts would be in their late 20's, and they should be sexually mature enough to be the masters of their domains for the duration of their flights. Most astronauts shouldn't be in space for more than a few weeks at a time, anyway.
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All we have to do is survive long enough to expand into space. I think if we did that, it would be hard for anything to stamp out all the pockets of humans around. Especially if we could figure out how to not die as individuals.
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by going to space in  a rocket.
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Ok, sure.  When do you want to start?
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Where does one sign up?  Is there a line yet? What time does the office where you have to sign up open?\n\ni.e. yep, I'd go in a heartbeat.\n\nWrite your congressman.  Tell them to have NASA build the "Orion" spacecraft.  About the best use of nuclear bombs that I can think of.\nTo clarify some other answerers' thinking.  Yes, from earth perspective, ship travel time on truly intergalactic ships would be millions of years.  However, relativistic effects would make it a "ship time" of less than a human lifetime.  Orion could not achieve these effects and would only be good for staying inside our own galaxy.  Some British aerospace engineers came up with an idea of a ship they called [I think] Daedalus that would achieve speeds of approx 80% c easily causing relativistic effects aboard ship.
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I will wait for a chance to be human
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Space has been successfully colonized for hundreds of thousands of your years, but not by Humans.  Over the centuries, your planet was a curious place to visit once or twice and was not considered very interesting . Sure, your wars showed us how undeveloped you are as a species.  Your infantile,(in cosmic terms) dependence on god concepts does not bode well for you and neither does your penchant to breed beyond your planet's ability to sustain you. We are now showing an interest in you because it is not often that we get to observe a species commit suicide. You are so close to maturing as a sentient species and it will be a shame to see you kill yourselves. There are just not enough of you becoming rational enough to force the issue. You let the least among you determine your fate, so be it.
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I don't know if soon. But if it's in my life time...PLEASE someone tell me so I can sign up for the next flight! Damn it couldn't be much worse than Earth.
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when we get our aim of life.
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Being an astronaut would ROCK! Unfortunately the odds of becoming a 'high flier' are pretty slim, you have to be like a specialist, have a stack of degrees, and probably be someone's relative. Nonetheless, being one of the people that grew up watching movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, and getting to see the shuttle launch for the first time on TV, I'd jump at the chance to do it, if nothing else to say I'd done it. Unfortunately, NASA produces lots of other things besides missions into space, chances would be better waiting for Spaceship Two etc. I fully believe Dick and Burt Rutan will continue to set records and new benchmarks for space travel. If not them, then wait for Honda, they'll build something that'll do laps around the moon AND get 40 MPG(hwy.) LOL