Future flights to Australia will take two hours through space!
Travelling for 24 hours might soon be a thing of the past...
Even when you're looking to visit friends and family who you love dearly, a 24-hour trip, with or without layovers, is an exhausting excursion.
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It might even have you reconsidering taking a vacation to see the land down under, rather settling for something closer to home.
But what if a flight to Australia would only take you two hours and took you on a detour through space?
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Aviation experts at the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) are working hard on figuring out how passengers experience G-forces and suborbital long-haul trips with the hopes of using this data to create a flight that will cut the time from England to Australia by 20 hours by sending it into space before it re-enters Earth's orbit.
According to what they know at this point, some passengers do experience 'physiological responses', but this will likely not affect all passengers.
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It seems like this is the latest in space innovation.
From space tourism and enjoying Michelin-star meals on the moon to sending celebs to outer space, it seems like civilization is moving further and further away from Earth every day.
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