I imaging listening directly to the sun would be the equivalent of looking directly at the sun, or touching the sun.

Booo, you guys are no fun!

Ok so supplementary question: assuming a mars ship would be modular construction assembled on earth orbit… what have we learned from the ISS that would be done differently?

Don’t ion thrusters deliver weak but long thrust?

Ha cool, someone already wrote a book about my fantasy!

Almost all conventional bombs and missiles will explode in a vacuum, they don’t use atmospheric oxygen. But they wouldn’t work the same way without the blast propagating through air. A hand grenade will still explode and fling shrapnel around though.

But let me know when NASA starts issuing high doses of Ketamine to astronauts.