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... and Safety Center (NESC) as an external review board in addition to the safety and risk departments that exist within all of NASA's departments, projects and programs. The NESC team ... called, help spot problems before the products or procedures are put into or returned to service. We are learning all the time and minimizing risk as a result. ---- Answer provided by Futron Corporation ...

To go to space you have to be in very good health and good physical condition, and you can do this by running and exercising. ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF (Ret.) Rick Searfoss Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks.com/ ...

... important to be well-trained with lots of practice of skills and testing of technologies. Risk in spaceflight depends on such things as the length of the trip, the spacecraft, the ... . That means there could be about a one in fifty chance of dying on the Space Shuttle. On a longer space trip, like a mission to Mars, the risk would be much ... the chances for a successful space mission. Based on the history of spaceflight so far, there have been far more successes than losses. ---- Answer provided by Brad McLain & Liv Arnesen Image ...

There are limited medical facilities in space. On some occasions there is an astronaut on board who was a doctor before becoming an astronaut. For the foreseeable future there will not be paramedical staff ...

... high voltages or magnetic fields. There are many different types of electric thrusters. The electric power to operate these thrusters is currently provided by solar panels, and there are plans to someday use nuclear ... that at Earth, and at Jupiter it is only four percent that at Earth. Nuclear reactors have plenty of specific energy but current designs are limited in specific power. This can be ...

... as on Earth? (JC) Smoking is not allowed in US spacecraft. Besides the potential fire risk, smoke could set off the smoke detectors and the ash could contaminate equipment. Also ash ... in micro-gravity and could potentially be inhaled into an astronaut's lungs. Most astronauts are very concerned about their health and don't smoke anyway. ---- Answer provided by Dr. Jonathan ...

... nuclear power. The ISS and the Space Shuttle have special types of electrical outlets that are designed so that the thing you plug into it will be locked in and will ...

... air can degrade if materials slowly give off toxic gases over a period of time. There are also specially trained people who odor-test all materials that will be used on board ...

There are no known diseases that only occur in space; however, the human body atrophies since one does not need to have such strong muscles and bones or such a strong heart because there ...

... look up to see the stars to understand where we are. After a while, they become familiar, and you feel like you are looking at a very cool road atlas ---- Answer provided ...

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