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Most workers risks their lives for their job. Factory and refinery workers die at a much higher rate than astronauts. More astronauts have died in plane crashes and car accidents than have died in space. While being an astronaut seems more dangerous than most jobs, there are countless safety factors built into the spacecraft and the flight plan that don't exist in most other earthly workplaces. There's obviously a risk to space travel, but NASA and the astronauts make sure their vehicle is as safe as possible to minimize those risks as much as is humanly possible.

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astronauts travel to space to make special discoveries about space, the planets and other galaxies etc. for example, NASA has made lots of space discoveries about the planets and galaxies. they get there by a very powerful rocket. they stay up there for about 2 or 3 months (minus op plus 1 or 2) to explore the milky way galaxy (which is the galaxy planet earth is in) and other places.

so,,, basically many astronauts go there to make new discoveries and explore the so interesting, planets and our galaxy....

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To find other life, extraterrestrial creatures, and just to know if there are limits to where humans can live or not, (that means if humans find other cool planets to live on or not )

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To report all on what is happening In the International Space Station

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