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The nicest thing about gravity is that it always brings you back to Earth
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Answer provided by Col. USAF Catherine Coleman, Ph.D.
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What we have found is that when you float into a room, you think the ceiling is ...
Shuttle astronauts will feel about 3 g's of pressure on their Shuttle pressure suits, which makes it ...
... electricity passed through it to separate it into oxygen and hydrogen. On the Space Station we carry up water and use a system called the elektron generator, a Russian-built system ...
Designers use 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.
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Answer provided by Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D.
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Looking down at the Earth is like getting a lesson in geography in the most amazing classroom you can imagine. It is a little disappointing at first to realize that there are no big capital letters over each country to tell us their names, and I wished that I had paid more attention in geography class. Soon though, I got better and better at looking at the Earth and understanding where I was. ...
... : 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 and when ...
... landing a simple calculation is completed. There are some known facts: how fast we are going, how high we are, and where we want to land. This is an energy-versus-range calculation which determines ...
... 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 Station is to use ...
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 ...
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