The ultimate galactic adventure - what would it be like to go into space?

As did Professor Brian Cox’s The Planets before it, Secrets Of Our Universe has provoked water cooler debate about all things space, and in conjunction with exciting recent events such as the Indian moon landing, the Virgin Galactic commercial flight last month, and this week’s talk of mummified aliens, conversation in households and workplaces across the land has taken a turn toward the interstellar.