If you could be an astronaut,what would you most want to do ?

[Sammo]

If you could be a professional astronaut, what would you most want to do and get up to ?

 

[2takesfrakes]

... I would settle for nothing less, than to be the first Man on Mars!

 

[FPAlpha]

Be amongst the first people to use an FTL drive (or anything that lets you cover interstellar distances).

Barring that just floating in space looking down on Earth.

 

[HIjol]

..other than being the first human on Mars (I did not make the "Mars 1" cut) , I would want to be like Rockhound in Armageddon...

"...I HATE knowing everything..."

 

[sojourner]

Go to Europa and find what's living under the ice.

 

[selina]

Be amongst the first people to use an FTL drive (or anything that lets you cover interstellar distances).

Barring that just floating in space looking down on Earth.

I second that. I always wanted to look down on earth from space or from the moon. Must be so beautiful.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Fight a caveman?

 

[MacLeod]

So much to do.

Be the first human on another planet
Be the first human to leave the solar system
Be the first human on an extrasolar planet.
I could go on.

But what about something simple like watching Earthrise on the Moon.

 

[1001001]

If you could be a professional astronaut, what would you most want to do and get up to ?

Have you ever seen the movie RocketMan?

I imagine it would be just like that.

 

[bbjeg]

I would be satisfied zipping around in a jetpack with the Earth as a backdrop.

 

[Levi]

I'd be satisfied just going into space!
Anything else that happens during my time up there would just be a bonus!

 

[Kommander]

Space Pirate.

 

[Finn]

But what about something simple like watching Earthrise on the Moon.

No such a thing as an Earthrise on the moon. It stays in the same area of the sky.

 

[C.E. Evans]

I'd be happy just being a pilot, flying ships to various colonies and space stations throughout the Solar System. In between cargo runs, I'd stay on some of those colonies and stations for a little while before shipping out again on another run.

 

[Finn]

It'd be awesome living on one of the moons orbiting one of the gas giants. Sleepless nights due to Saturn shining through your bedroom window

 

[trekkiedane]

But what about something simple like watching Earthrise on the Moon.

Is that eve possible??? - I mean; without rising from the lunar surface in some sort of spacecraft.
The moon "rises" when seen from Earth... I'm pretty sure the reverse doesn't happen: Earth is the one thing in the lunar sky that is ALWAYS in the same position.

Three-dimensional thinking an' all that.

The thing I'd like to do in space, is being the first Human being that encounters an extraterrestrial bioligical sentient entity.... and lives to write about how it tasted.

 

[Pondwater]

Colonize Mars.