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No, the Space Shuttle does not have hyper-speed.
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Answer provided by John Cavallaro
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... today's spacecraft. If by "hyper-speed" you mean warp speed, the term used in the TV series "Star Trek," the answer is no. In that series, warp factor one was the speed of light, which is about 186,000 miles per second. Today's spacecraft cannot go nearly that fast. But in the ... .
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Answer provided by Jon H. Brown
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... winds strike something they may leave behind small amounts of the elements they carry. They tend to bounce off of planets that have atmospheres, like our Earth, but tend to strike and ... planets or objects that have little or no atmosphere, such as our Moon.
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Answer provided by Joe Rhemann
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The solid rocket boosters provide the main thrust to lift off the Space Shuttle. Without them, the Space Shuttle could not get off the launch pad.
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Answer provided by John Cavallaro
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Actually, the Space Shuttle is also floating. We use small rockets to steer the vehicle, not wind or rudders.
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Answer provided by Byron Lichtenberg, Ph.D.
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... has many holes from the impact of small meteors striking its surface, since there is no atmosphere to burn them ... Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
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... the Shuttle takes eight and one-half minutes, and the return journey takes on the order of an hour, depending on the landing site used. It takes the Soyuz capsule approximately three hours to get into the ...
... from melting. "Ball of fire" is a good description of the air around the spacecraft. The kinetic energy at the tremendous re-entry speed causes the air to heat dramatically and dissociate into ions that glow brightly like a fire.
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Answer provided by Jon H. Brown
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... , if the re-entry is during the night, the appearance of an orange glow in the front windows. This is an exciting time for the crew because, in many cases, members of the crew have never experienced these feelings and sights before. Training in preparation for the mission is excellent, but it does not replicate accurately the ascent ...
... fall around the Earth, just like astronauts in the Shuttle or on the Space Station. Things have mass all the time because mass is the amount of matter we are made up of. Weight, then, is the pull of gravity on that mass at the ...
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