Would you like to travel into space if given the opportunity?

No. I have a wife and two lovely daughters and I have no interest in undertaking any risky activities that may result in my untimely death! As it stands, with a normal life span, I will probably be dead by the time my daughters are in their late 30's. I don't want to be absent from their lives any more than that! There is nothing I would experience in space that would be worth this kind of risk.


Copyright 1997 Dr. Sten Odenwald
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