Hi Carly,

If I would go to space I would bring a lot of books and some puzzles.
In my case it would be a disaster: I'm often even scared on a plane..

Mandy

I'm not sure that my favorite hobbies of cooking or running or singing would work very well in space - not enough room in a spaceship for any of them! But I tell you what I would like to do. I never learned to swim (which is shocking, I know) and so I don't know what it feels like to float and to move around in 3 dimension - up and down as well as left/right and forward/backward. In space, being 'weightless' I would get the chance to try that, without worrying about getting water up my nose.

Hi Carly, I think I would try gardening and growing orchids. NASA scientists are already doing experiments in space with plants. I used to have a new type of African Violet developed from seeds that were flown in space on NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility. This plant had some interesting traits that resulted from mutations that developed as a result of the seeds being flown in space. Alas, even mutant space violets won't survive not being watered for two weeks while you're out of town. Orchids seem to be very susceptible to mutations here on Earth, so it might be fun to try this with orchids. NASA scientists are also trying to grow plants in space to see how they react to being in a microgravity environment. Growing plants in space could be important for long missions to Mars, as sources of both food and oxygen. Kris