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A spaceship can be nearly any weight from a few ounces to millions of pounds. The NASA Space Shuttle weighs about 4.5 million pounds at lift off. (Ref.1) Ref 1.NASA, National ...

... would be effectively weight-less, and on the Moon my mass would weigh around 31 pounds. On Mars I would weigh 66 pounds—same amount of mass for me, but with ... in conversation that I weigh 176 pounds, what I mean is 176 pounds per one-g. One very important thing to remember in space is that inertia is a function of mass ... the mass of the Moon with the mass of the Earth shows how much less massive the Moon is. Remember, a ton is 2,000 pounds. Mass of: pounds Moon 162,000,000 ...

The Space Shuttle program cost about 33 billion dollars through the end of the development flight tests, after which it was declared operational. This included design, development, test, and evaluation of the orbiter, external tank, and solid rocket boosters. It also included five orbiters and several external tanks and solid rocket boosters. Operational costs are about $500 million for each ...

If you want to know how much it costs NASA to fly the Space Shuttle once, then that number is a little easier to find. Depending on how you count it's between $500 ...

A spaceship can be almost any size. Some satellites with cameras or other sensors are as small as a piece of notebook paper and several inches thick. Spaceships that carry humans must be large ... (air, water, food, waste disposal, couches, exercise machines, and so forth). But remember that the spaceship (or its pieces, if it is to be assembled in space) must be launched from ...

Well, you actually weigh nothing while you are in orbit, as weight means that there is a net gravity force on your body, so whatever your weight on Earth, it would be ... have mass, which is their intrinsic property to resist motion, so if you pushed on a heavy object it would go in one direction and you would go in the opposite ...

Much of the garbage and waste on board the Space Shuttle is stored in large bags ... with the Shuttle at the end of the mission. For the ISS re-supply missions, much of the ISS garbage and waste is stored in bags or stowage containers and placed ... to bring supplies and science racks to the Station. Waste products returning to Earth can weigh several tons. Another way to get rid of some of the trash on the Space ...

... Moon's one-sixth or ~16 percent gravity compared with Earth means that a 100-pound person would weigh about 16 pounds. ---- Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy ...

... see, water is highly valuable to any space mission for a variety of reasons. All water used by astronauts on a mission or on the Space Station is carried there from the ... from the Earth's surface to low Earth orbit is approximately $20,000 per 1.05 quarts. In contrast, if we do accurately confirm the presence of water ice on the ... of water from the Moon to low Earth orbit for only $2,000 per 1.05 quarts. ---- Answer provided by Joe Rhemann Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from ...

... economy class in a Virgin Galactic Spaceship It is really important that every astronaut has enough personal space to experience the joys of weightlessness and, of course, every seat is a window seat ...

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