31 Unexpected Quirks of Space Travel We’ll Need to Conquer to Get to Mars

Let’s do a hypothetical: A narcissistic billionaire who buys up social media networks, makes electric cars and also freaking rockets offers you a one-way ticket to his new Mars colony. The biggest factor in your decision might be the fact that you’d be leaving behind your home planet as well as everyone you’ve ever known for a cold and unforgiving desert rock. But even if you can conquer such homesickness, it turns out that space travel is an absolute nightmare on a delicate human meat suits. 

Below are some of the worst parts of traveling through space — and that’s only what we know so far! Surely more terrible things await us in the vastness of space.