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Venus rotates retrograde, meaning it rotates from east to west, instead of west to east, which would be prograde, as most of the other major planets do. It is not known why Venus spins differently though it may be the result of a collision in the planet's distant past. In addition, Venus spins very slowly. 243 days go by on Earth for every day on Venus ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - VENUS

... of material which became the Sun and planets. The planets continue to rotate around the Sun, because there is nothing to stop them. In addition, each planet continues to spin on its axis for the same reason. The Earth takes 24 hours to spin around once, thus giving us our night and day ... 1969, it took them three days to get there, so they could see the Earth spin three times during their journey. ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

Venus was once thought to possess a moon, named Neith, which appeared in occasional sightings and reports by astronomers from 1672 until 1892. These sightings have since been discredited and we now know Venus does not have a moon ...

... . The surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 13 spacecraft are the earliest color pictures of Venus's surface. Venera 13 was the first of the Venera missions to include a color ... . The lander touched down in March 1982. http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/photo_gallery/photogallery-venus.html (See CDROM) ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

... on the Moon. The Moon is in the gravitational sphere of influence of the Earth (which is why it is in orbit), but it has its own gravitational sphere of influence ...

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 Space Transportation System Reference, Volume 1 Systems and Facilities, June 1988. This document is available on the Internet at: http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc.html sts-umbilical-doors ...

What we have found is that when you float into a room, you think the ceiling is above you, and the floor is below. If I happened to enter sideways— for example, if I got a little twisted as I flew through the tunnel to the space lab—and started floating along the side of the tunnel instead of along the bottom and then entered the space lab with the side wall beneath me, my first ...

Mars would be the best planet in our solar system. We are very lucky to have the Earth's Moon to go to first to learn how to live there. We can then go on to Mars. There are many other moons in our solar system we can live on. ---- Answer provided by John Spencer Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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... device that permits you to manipulate equipment with your hands using gloves into which you stick your hands. That way the spacecraft environment is not exposed to material in the glove box ...

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