• Question: Can you live in space

    Asked by anon-191656 to Kathryn, Graeme, Anne, Agnes, Adam on 14 Nov 2018. This question was also asked by anon-191801.
    • Photo: Anne Green

      Anne Green answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      We need oxygen and there’s no oxygen in space. So we need a source of oxygen. People do live on the International Space Station (for up to a year) which orbits the Earth.

    • Photo: Agnes Wojtusiak

      Agnes Wojtusiak answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      Well, isn’t the Earth technically in space? 😉
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      And Anne’s right, people live on the ISS for months at a time! But in pure, empty space… Probably not, there isn’t much there anyway!

    • Photo: Adam McGuinness

      Adam McGuinness answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      Like Anne said, we can’t live without equipment like we do here on Earth, but people do live there for short amounts of time. It is very expensive to put people and the things they need (food, air, water) into space, if cost wasn’t a problem then we could do it more.

    • Photo: Kathryn

      Kathryn answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      If you have aplace to live Yes. That place has to have the perfect environment to live in so the right temapretus, humidity, pressure, atmosphere with food and waste facilities.

      Consider where you are now and everything that makes it the perfect place for you to exist. You have to take all that into space within a suitable container for you to live in space.

    • Photo: Graeme Poole

      Graeme Poole answered on 15 Nov 2018:

      On the International Space Station, astronauts live up there for over 7 months at a time. But of course you need oxygen to live in there and anywhere in space. The lack of gravity also has a bad affect on your body’s health. Astronauts have to exercise on the space station for at least 2 hours a day just to maintain their body’s strength. So it’s possible to live ins pace, but it’s not easy!

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