Commercial spaceflight companies such as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin are now offering exclusive opportunities for celebrities and civilians to travel to space.
As “space tourism” continues to grow, people have lots of legal and moral questions.
One big question – what happens when someone dies in space?
Erin Vee talks "All Over the Space" every week with Mike Murray from the Delta College Planetarium and he has the answers.
The time spent in space on these tourist missions currently ranges from a few minutes to a few days, meaning the risk of a death in space from natural causes is very low, though not impossible.
The question of what to do if someone dies in space will become increasingly important and complex when space travelers go on longer missions, deeper into space, and when one day, we have a colony somewhere on a distant planet.
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