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Stars come in a wide variety of sizes, from the tiny neutron stars that are the size of a small city to the super-giant stars that are nearly as large as our entire solar system. ---- Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book ...

Some stars are close and some are very far away, from a few light years to many thousands of light years. The star Proxima Centauri, the closest star outside of our solar system, is a little over four light years away. ---- Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the ...

Earth orbit comes first, and then the Moon. Probably Mars will come next, and its weird moons Phobos and Deimos, which look ... will continue to send robots to all the planets and their moons. ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie ...

Photosynthesis works the same in space. While specific research has not been conducted on the photosynthetic pathway while plants are in space, plants seemingly go through all the proper steps in plant development at the proper developmental time. Therefore, we hypothesize that since the rate of development is unchanged, the ...

... of the proposed Spaceport Singapore will be suborbital spaceflights. As each suborbital vehicle reaches its maximum altitude of 100 kilometers, passengers will experience up to five minutes of continuous weightlessness, all the while gazing at the blackness of space set against the horizon of Earth. Spaceport Singapore, in addition to providing suborbital spaceflights ...

... , let's define some terms as they are used in the aerospace community. A rocket is propelled by propellants. Propellants are usually made up of two materials—a fuel and an ... use monomethyl hydrazine (the fuel) and nitrogen tetroxide (the oxidizer). The German V-2 rocket used alcohol and oxygen. The Atlas rocket used kerosene and oxygen. But of all these, hydrogen has the highest energy content ...

... you are moving very fast through space, then time will move slower for you than it is moving on Earth. But you must be moving very fast—near the speed of ... hour— to notice this difference in the rate of time passing. Therefore minutes and hours will be the same length for space travelers as they are back on Earth. Space travelers on trips ... provided by Luke Keller, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This ...

Stars come in a variety of colors, based on their surface temperatures. The coolest stars are red and the hottest are bluish-white to the eye. In between you will find some that are orange and others that are yellow like the Sun. ---- Answer provided by ...

The blood pressure and heart rate while resting should be the same as resting on Earth. While exercising in space, the heart beats faster for each level of work, so if riding a bike on Earth causes the heart beat to rise to 100 beats per minute, the same effort in space may cause the ...

The same medications are used on Earth and in space. Medical kits provide a range of pharmaceuticals for the most commonly experienced conditions. You would not have to bring your own. ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF Dr. Richard S. Williams Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This ...

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