## Daytrip into space

Daytrip into space
Lijkt het je wat: een ruimtereisje van een dag? En zou je het kunnen betalen?
Je gaat zo het gesprek lezeb dat Callum en Neil hadden voor BBC World Service.
Daarna beantwoord je de volgende vragen.

- Wat wordt bedoeld met een 'day-trip'?
- Welke day-trip deed Neil als day-trip?
- Over welk onderwerp gaat het gesprek van vandaag?
- Hoe hoog boven de aarde kun je reizen in het ruimteschip?
- Wat wordt bedoeld met iets dat 'under-wraps' is?
- Hoe duur zal een 'space trip' worden?

Lees nu de tekst en beantwoord de vragen.

Callum: Now in today’s programme we’re going to be looking at day-trips, but not your average kind of day-trip. First Neil, can you explain what we mean by a daytrip. Neil: Sure, a day-trip is like a short holiday. You go somewhere and come back on the same day. Callum: Yes, when I was a child I remember we used to go on day-trips to the beach or day-trips to the forest. What about you Neil, did you or do you go on day-trips? Neil: When I was a kid I lived in Canada and we often had visitors and we took them to local places of interest on day-trips, for example Niagara Falls. Callum: Wow, that’s a great place for a day trip. Our topic today is all about a day-trip that is literally out of this world. The day-trips I’m talking about are into space. If you’ve ever dreamt of being an astronaut, now you can make that dream come true. Provided you can afford it! Now a company is selling tickets for day-trips to space. They’re building a special craft to do this and one of these was revealed to the public earlier this year. So Neil, let’s answer the distance question first. How high above the Earth will the actual spaceship travel? Neil: It’ll be 62 miles. Which is about 100 km. Callum: And what do we know about the spaceship itself? Neil: Well not that much as that is what is still ‘under-wraps’, that’s still secret. Callum: Ok, now Neil, would you fancy this day-trip? Would you fancy going up into space? Neil: One question, an important one. How much does it cost? Callum: Well you can book a ticket for this space trip, this day-trip to space, for only $200,000! Neil: Well, eh, NO, that is my answer!