QUESTION:
Will you get hot going into space when you are so close 
to the sun even though your going to be in the spaceship?

ANSWER from Jay Buckey:
As it turns out, we will be in orbit about 175 miles above 
the Earth. So we will not be all that much closer to the sun than people on 
Earth are. But we will be outside of the atmosphere. The atmosphere, the air 
that surrounds us, keeps temperatures on Earth within reason. On the ground 
it does not get too hot when the sun is shining or too cold at night. In 
orbit, however, it is a different story. The temperatures outside the shuttle 
are very hot when the sun is shining and extremely cold when it is not. But, 
the shuttle has a very effective system to keep things in control.