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It's exciting to blast off into space. The loudness is outside the vehicle. The crew feels the noise through the structure but they don't wear earplugs. Occupants of the vehicle do not feel heat on launch.
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Answer provided by Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.) William G. Gregory
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... ; was launched by NASA on June 30, 2001. It has taken a whole-sky picture and discovered radiation remnants only 380,000 years after the big bang just prior to the formation of the first stars in our Universe. This puts the size of our observable Universe at a distance of 13.7 billion light years. New evidence also shows that the expansion of the Universe is ...
The Sun is a stable, middle-aged star that has allowed our solar system to develop life on Earth over the last 4.6 billion years. It will last many more billions of years before changing and affecting life on Earth.
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Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski
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... is dangerous, and always will be. It's an unforgiving environment. Currently we have lost one orbiter and its crew every 65 launches or so. I was excited, but didn't worry, you never expect it to happen to you.
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Answer provided by Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.) William G. Gregory
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... us the deep blue skies we are all familiar with. Remember that scattering just means that the light goes off in many random directions. And, since space is a pretty good vacuum—meaning it has no air molecules—the light can never be ...
This is a difficult question to answer; Einstein figured it out with his theory of general relativity. The answer is that it doesn't go on forever, but it doesn't have an edge either. Think of a rubber band. It has a ...
We are now just beginning to find other solar systems with other planets around other stars in our galaxy. The possibility is present that there may be other worlds in other solar systems ... life.
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Answer provided by Gregory Schlick
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... right, space is a vacuum and therefore no sound occurs in the vacuum of space because sound waves require a medium such as water or air through which to travel. There is no atmosphere ... Moffitt & Cdr. USN Robert L. Curbeam
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... electricity as long as there is sunlight. Nuclear energy lasts a long time. But we can't say it is unlimited, because it will depend on how much we use. The amount of electricity we have will depend on a number of things: how much we can generate; how much we use at ... day.
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Answer provided by John Cavallaro
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During launch, you could get a small feeling of the speed by watching the ground move away faster and faster, but in space it is hard to tell how fast you are going. This is because you are so far up.
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Answer provided by John Cavallaro
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