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An airlock is a device which allows movement from one kind of environment to another, while maintaining separation ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - AIRLOCKS

An asteroid is an object, too small to be considered a planet that orbits the Sun. Most asteroids can ...

There is potential energy and kinetic energy. Potential energy is associated with height and kinetic energy is associated with velocity. The other part of the calculation is range-to-touchdown. There is an equation that, when ...

... the International Space Station (ISS) are like a door to your house. The "joint airlock" itself has two small rooms, the equipment lock and the crewlock. ---- Answer provided by Russell ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - AIRLOCKS

An environment defines the area or space around you. For example, the air around you is part of your environment. The air must be breathable and not too hot or too cold for you to survive. The bedroom where you sleep is also an environment. ---- Answer provided by Robby Gaines Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted ...

... arm out and wave it around, you are feeling the atmosphere. The Earth's atmosphere is composed mostly of nitrogen and oxygen molecules with other minor gases. We breathe the oxygen ... upward we travel from the surface. Ten miles up the pressure is one-ninth of the surface; 15 miles up it is one-twenty-seventh of the surface. Commercial jets fly about five miles up and the air is very thin. The edge of space is roughly 60 miles up and the air is so thin that commercial planes cannot fly and ...

... particular country, nation or territory as well as to the ownership of new lands. Sovereignty is intricately linked with jurisdiction and control over a territory. Whoever had sovereignty could claim ownership ...

... Earth's protective atmosphere—begins at a height of 62 miles above Earth and is called the Karman Line, named for the Hungarian aeronautical pioneer Theodore Von Karman who helped ...

... force that causes objects with mass to be attracted to other objects of mass. Gravity is the downward force that keeps your feet on the ground and prevents you from floating ...

Think about our solar system—nine planets orbiting our Sun. A galaxy is like that, only much bigger. Billions of stars, like our Sun, orbit something very massive, ...

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