Is it legal to go to space?

No one nation may claim ownership of outer space or any celestial body. Activities carried out in space must abide by the international law and the nations undergoing these said activities must accept responsibility for the governmental or non-governmental agency involved.
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Can a normal person go to space?

Almost anyone. At least anyone who can afford it. Blue Origin, which is auctioning off a seat on a flight scheduled for July 20, said the winner must be able to endure three times the force of gravity for two minutes on ascent and five and a half times the force of gravity for a few seconds on the way down.
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Is it illegal to fly out of space?

The Commercial Space Act was passed in 1998 and implements many of the provisions of the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990. Nonetheless, until 2004 NASA kept private space flight effectively illegal.
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Can I buy my own satellite?

To put it simply, if you have enough money you can buy a satellite straight off the shelf. The standard, for long, have been the CubeSats (small cubes that weigh just 1 kg), which came up around 1999. Since then, more than 100 of them have been launched by NASA alone - but primarily for schools and colleges.
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Is it illegal to build a rocket and go to space?

Homemade rockets are legal both to make and to launch if you comply with all the regulations. It's alright to build and fly the rocket itself. However, creating, selling, transporting, and using homemade rocket engines is restricted by federal, state, and/or local government regulations.
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Can kids go to space?

There are reasons no kid has ever flown to space. The chief one, of course, is the danger involved; the death of a child is always more tragic and heart-wrenching, and less acceptable, than the loss of an adult. In addition, the hazards of space radiation are more acute for youngsters than for grown-ups.
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How much is a space ticket?

On Tuesday, the aerospace company announced plans to sell tickets to the general public to snag a seat for a future spaceflight. Reservations open up Feb. 16 and will cost $450,000. Potential travelers must pay a $150,000 deposit to hold the spot, then pay the rest before their flight.
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Can you buy a ticket to the Moon?

Tickets to travel on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the moon will cost $200 million for a solo trip, or $100 million per ticket for a two-person flight. Space Adventures has identified approximately 1,000 people with the financial capablity to afford the flight.
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How long is a trip to the Moon?

It takes about 3 days for a spacecraft to reach the Moon. During that time a spacecraft travels at least 240,000 miles (386,400 kilometers) which is the distance between Earth and the Moon. The specific distance depends on the specific path chosen.
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How expensive is a trip to the Moon?

NASA yesterday revealed that its forthcoming Artemis missions to the Moon—including crewed landings on the lunar surface—will cost around $28 billion. Think that's a lot of money for a NASA moon mission?
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How much is a one way ticket to Mars?

SpaceX's Mars ships won't be ferrying just the super rich to and from the Red Planet, if everything goes according to Elon Musk's plan.
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Has Elon Musk been space?

Only Musk knows why he hasn't gone to space, and he's a hard person to reach. SpaceX did not respond to a request for comment, and Musk has not acknowledged a question I posed on Twitter, where he sometimes responds directly to reporters.
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How long does it take to go to space?

Notes: It can take anywhere from 6 hours to 3 days to get to the International Space Station, depending on the spacecraft and mission profile. It took the Apollo astronauts about three days to get to the Moon.
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How much does Elon Musk charge in space?

'Less than $10 million' per launch

But, even though Starship is many times larger and expected to have a multibillion-dollar development cost, Musk says the next-generation rocket will be far less expensive per launch. “I'm highly confident it would be less than $10 million,” Musk said.
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Who is the youngest person in space?

Oliver Daemen

Oliver Daemen is the youngest person to travel into space at just 18-years-old! Daemen is classified as a space tourist and flew as part of the Blue Origin NS-16 mission, helmed by famed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
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Has there been a kid in space?

Soviet cosmonaut Ghermon Titov holds the record for the youngest to fly in space. He was 25 when he blasted into orbit four months after Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space.
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Do we age faster in space?

It's long been known that exposure to radiation damages DNA, but a new study has found an additional risk for astronauts: DNA replication is more prone to errors in microgravity.
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Can astronauts cry in space?

However, as astronaut Chris Hadfield notes, in microgravity, "your eyes make tears but they stick as a liquid ball." In other words, astronauts technically can't cry. Sure, you can get a watery substance to come out of your eyes, but it doesn't fall like it ordinarily does on Earth.
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Is SpaceX private?

SpaceX is not a public company, it is still privately owned. Tesla, one of Elon Musk's other companies, is a public company. Musk has discussed the possibility of taking SpaceX private, or at least Starlink, which is a part of SpaceX that seeks to provide Internet to most of the earth via satellites in space.
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Who owns space?

The laws governing the exploration of space are still being debated. Speaking broadly, no one owns space. But when you start looking at the particulars, a more complex answer emerges. Major organizations and investors wouldn't be vying to get a piece of the space pie if there wasn't amazing money to be made.
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Who owns NASA?

That's because NASA isn't a private or publicly-owned company. Instead, it's an official agency of the U.S. government. That means it's technically owned by the United States and receives government funding just like the Department of Justice, Department of Education, National Park Service, etc.
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Is send your name to Mars free?

'Send Your Name to Mars' applications are completely free of charge. Anyone who wants to apply can do so without having to pay. Once you apply, you also get a free NASA boarding pass with your details on it, which you can print or share on your social media accounts.
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Can you breathe on Mars?

If you tried to breathe on the surface of Mars without a spacesuit supplying your oxygen – bad idea – you would die in an instant. You would suffocate, and because of the low atmospheric pressure, your blood would boil, both at about the same time.
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