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Mankind is making serious efforts towards eventually conquering other heavenly bodies and start habiting space. The technical problems relating to travel and habitation are being solved. Nevertheless, psychological questions relating to voluntary space travel and habiting space have not been researched. Psychological features, like personality, are known to affect general operational effectivity and behavior in different environments. This thesis analyses if psychological features (Big-5 personality, Schwartz values, empathizing- systemizing cognitive style, dark triad) predict willingness to travel to space or to celestial bodies. The key fining is that, out of the mentioned features, systemizing cognitive style predicts the willingness to go to space. Other psychological features are also linked to systemizing cognitive style and these features are discussed in more detail. The underlying structure is also psychometrically interesting as it ties in some of the researched measures in causal structure. Vapaaehtoisen avaruusmatkustuksen psykologiaa ei ole tutkittu aiemmin. Työssä pohditaan lukuisia kiinnostavia uusia suuntia, joita tämä aiemmin tutkimaton aihe tarjoaa. The psychology of voluntary space travel has not been previously researched. The thesis discusses new interesting potential new research directions related to this topic.