Rocket

They say by the end of this current decade, space travel will be the way to go, those flights fifteen hours long from London to Hong Kong will take thirty nine minutes or so. It all sounds quite appealing but I have a feeling the reality won't match the dream, the brainstorming sessions and artist's impressions will not all quite be as they seem. For the spacemen today before they fly away must be physically fit, at their best. They undergo gruelling routines 'till their bodies are lean and must pass a battery of tests. There's no way that I would be passed 'fit to fly' undergoing 3G stress on a launch, my eyeballs would burst and what could be much worse is what such force would do to my paunch. My initial delight of making such a flight has suddenly now lost all its fizz, with a tear and a sigh I wave 'bye' to Shanghai, and so Skegness this summer it is.