09. What percentage of a trip to space is leisure versus the percentage that is educational? Would it be a learning experience or a fun one? (A K2S Question)

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This great adventure would be one big experience full of fun and learning. There is nothing that could separate the fun from the learning. It will be the grandest and most important opportunity in your lifetime! You will get to come home and share with the rest of us how incredible space is. What fun that will be! As for leisure, there will be times where there will be a day off for you. Astronauts are on a pretty tight schedule where every minute is planned. Why? Spending time in space is precious and it takes a lot of time, money, and effort by hundreds of people to get you there. You don't want to waste one minute in achieving the objective of the mission. So leisure time is a part of the planned schedule and it would be for your mission, too.

Answer provided by Pam Leestma


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