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MS. STILSON:  Okay. Ernesto from Santa Clarita asks, do you think that

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children will ever be allowed to travel into space with the astronauts?

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MS. HIRE:  Well, I think children will not travel with astronauts. But I think some day, children will travel

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with colonists. If you think all the way back to early discovery in our history, let's say Christopher Columbus,

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in his expeditions, when Christopher Columbus first left to come across the Atlantic, he brought a group of explorers with him and he

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did not bring his children because they didn't know if they were just going to sail off the edge of the Earth.

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But once he made several trips and we eventually get to the point where the colonists started to come, they brought their entire families.

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So when we reach the point where it's no longer just exploration and it's truly colonization,

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then I believe we can bring families and pets and all types of things.

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