[PapaBear3625]

However, I would not send this young lady, or any other person for that matter, on this mission, because the technology to safely accomplish it simply does not exist.

The technology to safely cross the Atlantic Ocean did not exist when the first settlers came to the New World. They came anyway. Men, women, and children. Almost half of the Mayflower colonists died the first winter, many of them women and children.

[chris37]

If you want to send her to die alone in space, then, by all means, send her.