What Do American Teens Have to Say About Space Travel?

1. What do you think the Space Program going to do in the future?

   Person #1: Somehow, we’re going to figure out how to make other planets livable for humans

   Person #2: Aren’t they shut down?

   Person #3: We’re going to find habitable planet(s) and send people even farther into our galaxy
2. Perspectives on aliens
   

   Person #1:They probably don't exist

   Person #2: They probably exist

   Person #3:They exist - I am very excited to see what they look like
   Person #4: The government made them up!
3. How does the space program work?
   

   Person #1: They send out satellites to get digital pictures to planets and put people out in space to do the same...right?

   Person #2: Everyone who works at NASA and the astronauts have to be very smart. No one goes to space anymore. People - the scientists - at NASA send satellites into space.

   Person #3: Do the astronauts have to know how to float on command

   Person #4: Government allocates a certain amount of $$ to the space program and that’s how they carry out their studies/experiments/space trips
4. Are you curious about how the space program works?

   Person #1: No, don’t care

   Person #2: Sometimes

   Person #3: No, not really...
   Person #4: It's their jobs
   
   This survey shows that teenagers/students in the United States (or especially those in Pennsylvania) have only a very limited knowledge of what happens outside their little green world. This is something that needs to change, and I feel that the modern age of technology will eventually turn students into experts of all types of scientists.