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The Earth's atmosphere covers the entire surface of the planet and extends upward with increasingly lower density. There are a few atoms of the Earth's atmosphere extending to the Moon's orbit.
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Answer provided by Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D.
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... around the equator, which is pretty big—a modern jetliner takes nearly two days to fly around it. But an astronaut gets around it in only an hour and a half. There are bigger planets such as Jupiter, which is 11 times bigger than Earth. The Earth is almost a perfect sphere but is slightly flattened at the poles, so there is a difference of 25 miles in the diameter at the equator, and ...
... orbits the galaxy, similar to the way the Earth orbits the Sun. The galaxy is so big that we have only completed one orbit—called a galactic year— since dinosaurs ... 400 billion stars in it
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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski
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Jupiter is about 2.5 times more massive than all of the other planets in our solar system combined. It has a diameter eleven times greater than Earth's and a planetary volume of over 1300 times that of Earth's. While Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, scientists ... are even bigger
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Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno
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... , weighs 100 times more, has a width of 150 feet with its solar cells extended, and is as tall as a house.
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Answer provided by Derek Webber
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... go down to about the size of rocks that we find here on Earth—and everything in between.
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Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph.D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy
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... part of the training is the sheer volume of material that needs to be learned.
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Answer provided by Col. USAF (Ret.) Rick Searfoss
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... Russian side there is a combination docking and airlock module called Pirs, which means "pier" in Russian. It has a mass of around 8,580 pounds, is 13.45 feet long and 8.53 feet in diameter.
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Answer provided by Russell Romanella
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... 14-day mission. It really gets pretty cramped and there is not much privacy. Actually, weightlessness helps out here because it is easy to move about and astronauts can sleep standing up. (Ref. 1)
Ref 1.NASA, National Space Transportation System Reference, Volume 1 Systems and Facilities, June 1988.
This document is available on the Internet at: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts ...
... all the new stuff is taken on board the ISS, these capsules are refilled with trash by the astronauts and then sent overboard. Their fiery reentry into Earth's atmosphere burns everything up.
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Answer provided by Russell Romanella & George Veaudry
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