World’s first ‘reality show in space’ to film contestant on 10-day trip to the ISS in 2023
PLANS for a new reality show that will send one winner to space for 10 days have been revealed.
Media production company Space Hero Inc. wants to film a contestant's trip to the International Space Station in 2023.
He added that the show "is about opening space up to everyone – not only to astronauts and billionaires."
The contest to find a suitable space goer would be worldwide so almost anyone could apply.
The production crew want to find space loving individuals.
Once selected, the people would be filmed going through gruelling astronaut training.
This means a high level of fitness would probably be needed from the candidates.
The aim is for the audience to pick their favourite person to send to space.
When the winner has been picked they would be blasted off to the ISS for 10 days and filmed during the whole time from take off to landing.
Space Hero Inc. is also working with private space company Axiom Space.
Axiom is aiming to send paying customers to space as early as next year.
This isn't the first time a space reality TV show has been in the works though so we'll have to be patient to see if it comes to fruition.
What is the ISS?
Here's what you need to know about the International Space Station...
- The International Space Station, often abbreviated to ISS, is a large space craft that orbits Earth and houses astronauts who go up there to complete scientific missions
- Many countries worked together to build it and they work together to use it
- It is made up of many pieces, which astronauts had to send up individually on rockets and put together from 1998 to 2000
- Ever since the year 2000, people have lived on the ISS
- Nasa uses the ISS to learn about living and working in space
- It is approximately 250 miles above Earth and orbits around the planet just like a satellite
- Living inside the ISS is said to be like living inside a big house with five bedrooms, two bathrooms, a gym, lots of science labs and a big bay window for viewing Earth
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