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... a balance of reflective materials to reflect sunlight and multi-layer blankets and heaters to keep the temperature within a satellite, capsule or spacesuit within any desired limit. ---- Answer provided by ...

The nicest thing about gravity is that it always brings you back to Earth ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF Catherine Coleman, Ph.D. 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/Books/For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here

... last for many years in space. We learn about living in space every time we go there. We are inventing better technology and smarter computers which will allow us to build habitats on the Moon and Mars for larger numbers of people. As the habitats get bigger they will have more and more plants. The plants will clean the oxygen and will provide more oxygen as well as food. ---- Answer provided ...

... , would work the same way in space. Magnets and Velcro can both be used to keep the pieces from floating away. Games that use dice wouldn't work because the dice ...

... hotel will have instruments on board that can answer three questions: Where am I? How am I oriented? Where is everything else? These data will be transmitted to ground control through communication satellites. We can use this information, verify it with our own readings from the ground, and use it to plot our course so we know how ...

... missions are the real challenge. The largest issue we will contend with is not how to carry water with us through space, but rather, how to move enough water up from the Earth's surface to support a long-duration mission. Because of the expense of lifting high quantities of water up to orbit, we have ... into Earth orbit or at one of the Earth's LaGrangian points where gravitational fields will allow objects placed in a specific location in space (relative to Earth) to remain there ...

When we first encounter life in outer space we will need to be sure it is truly a life form. We might not even know it is alive because it will be very different. We will touch it, watch it and study the new life as we try to understand how it moves, eats and reproduces. Only after that would we try to ...

We will need to grow some of our own food in space, and recycle most of our water. Some plants grow well in zero-gravity, while others do not. Lunar pioneers likely will ...

... we eat it very carefully. We eat from plastic pouches, in which we cut small slits, and we often eat slightly sticky foods so that they will stick together and stick to our forks. We don ...

... would protect the plants from the cold, radiation and lack of a suitable atmosphere, and we could use the regoliths as a substrate for growing the plants. Because there are nutrients in these regoliths, we would need to bring fewer nutrients with us. ---- Answer provided by Gregory Schlick Image:K2S ...

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