• Question: Do you think In the future the planets will eventually be tourist attractions you can visit ?

    Asked by Kelsiepops to Scott on 14 Nov 2017.
    • Photo: Scott Melville

      Scott Melville answered on 14 Nov 2017:

      Yes, absolutely! In fact, this is so certain that NASA has already created an ‘Exoplanet Travel Bureau’, which makes posters and adverts for holidays on the habitable exoplanets
      https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/exoplanet-travel-bureau/
      🙂 My favourite one is Kebler 16b – it was two suns in the sky (like Tatooine from Star Wars!). It might take a while for our rockets to get fast enough to visit – but in principle you could travel to these far off planets in just a few years, so if future advances in medicine keep us alive for longer, I think plenty of tourists will want to visit other planets! 🙂

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