Is it feasible to send teenagers into space or even space station?

[SunlitZelkova]

9 hours ago, tater said:

Indeed.

You'd think the colonize Mars types would want to send some sort of tethered station up, with animals in each side (something they could take care of using an automated system) at 0.38g. Then look at the results. Actually, they could have a 1g area, and a 0.38g section, that way they control for the radiation environment, etc.

https://falsesteps.wordpress.com/2012/11/07/the-orbiting-primate-spacecraft-the-cape-flying-monkeys-apollo-applications-program-part-iv/

The neat thing is, the 460 kilometer orbit this thing was intended for is totally feasible for Dragon. How high can it maximally go up again?

Or the thing could be fully automated like Cargo Dragon. I’m sure it would be possible to move whatever you want to bring back out of the main module and into the return capsule remotely.

[kerbiloid]

43 minutes ago, tater said:

In 0g?

From the 0g-born, lol.

[Beamer]

10 hours ago, kerbiloid said:

The quail eggs were to fly in the planned centrifuge ISS biomodule until its cancellation.

That seems a bit of an unrealistic expectation, they don't even do that on earth!

 

[kerbiloid]

18 minutes ago, Beamer said:

That seems a bit of an unrealistic expectation, they don't even do that on earth!

 

It was one of the planned experiments of the centrifugal biolab.

[Dcseal]

On 10/21/2022 at 2:39 PM, cubinator said:

An 18 year old went on a New Shepard flight a while back.

I think teenagers can be strong and healthy enough to handle it, especially with training.

Yeah, it was a rich tourist deal with the kid’s dad. I’d imagine a suborbital sit-still-and-watch flight is doable, but day-to-day orbital living might be extremely difficult on a youngster 

[tater]