• Question: how many people have been to space

    Asked by anon-271253 on 20 Nov 2020.
    • Photo: Sam Geen

      Sam Geen answered on 20 Nov 2020:

      569 people from 41 countries so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_space_travelers_by_name

      Normally scientists that study space don’t go into space because you need special training. However, one of the astronauts, John Grunsfeld, is an astronomer as well and got some time to use the Hubble Space Telescope as a reward for flying up to fix it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Grunsfeld – there’s a cool 3D IMAX movie of this if you get a chance to see it called Hubble 3D.

    • Photo: Adrien Chauvet

      Adrien Chauvet answered on 20 Nov 2020:

      Not forgetting that the first one was Russian!
      Btu with the collapse of the USSR and the end of the cold war, the US had no more incentive to pursue the “space race”, and a lot of excellent space project died in their egg… like lunar-base telescopes; mining hubs on mars, etc. which would have put many more men in space.

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