• Question: will we ever visit distant galaxies?

    Asked by xWarlord24x to Anna, James, Joe, Leonie, Olivia on 13 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes

      Leonie Oostwoud Wijdenes answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      According to Wikipedia: “there is nothing to indicate that intergalactic travel is impossible”. But as the nearest other galaxies are hundreds of thousands to millions of light-years away, we are very far from having the techniques to make this happen.

    • Photo: Joe Spencer

      Joe Spencer answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      xWarlord24x
      Leonie is probably right, galaxies are so ridiculously far away it’s hard to travel to them, it’ll take millions of years even travelling at the speed of light. Maybe worm holes or something like that, but that seems too sci-fi

    • Photo: James Pope

      James Pope answered on 13 Mar 2015:

      Hi Warlord,

      I think we will one day, but they will be one way missions, with people frozen and launched into space. But first stop, is to send people to Mars and while missions visiting other Galaxies will not be in our lifetime, the Mars mission should be.

      At the British Antarctic Survey base called Halley, in Antarctica, they have installed a space flight simulator so that scientists can work out how being enclosed for months (the Halley winter crew are trapped there for 5-6 months, with no contact and no way to leave). They want to see how prolonged confinement affects the skills of space pilots, research we need to know for the Mars mission.

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