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... carry as many crewmembers or as large a payload. Designing a shuttle is similar to designing a truck: you can design a pickup-size truck, or a dump truck, or a huge semi-tractor trailer truck. It ... H. Brown
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Since there is no oxygen in space, and we need oxygen to feed a fire, there are no fires found in space. This does not mean we should not be concerned about fires on board ... fire propagates in the confines of a micro-gravity environment on board a large orbiting spacecraft like the ISS. To better understand how fires can spread in space, astronauts and cosmonauts perform many controlled ...
... to make the Shuttle as safe as it can be. Many changes have been made during that time. Some of those changes will reduce the chance of problems during launch. Other changes make the Space Shuttle tougher. Other changes will help watch for any signs of problems. Also, the President's Exploration Vision calls for the creation of a new vehicle that is ...
In some cases we can make air. Water as we know it is made up of hydrogen and oxygen. If we pass electricity through water it breaks up the molecule and we get hydrogen and oxygen ... they can carry up water and make oxygen like the Shuttle and Space Station do today, or they can do something called in-situ resource utilization. In-situ means they might be able to make their ...
To make fire you need fuel, oxygen, and a spark or heat source. So you can make a fire inside a spaceship that has a supply of oxygen. But in space where there is no air and therefore very little or no oxygen, you cannot make a ...
The NASA Space Shuttle is made up of four main parts: the orbiter, the external tank, and the two ... 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 ...
There is very little oxygen in space but we can make oxygen from the rocks of planets and asteroids, and we are already working on this.
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Answer provided by Bradley C. Edwards, Ph.D.
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... to generate thrust to propel spacecraft. These propellants are limited in the power they can supply. To travel to the planets faster will most likely require using atomic energy ... & Gary Hudson
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... the surface of a planet or the Moon and simply drift away and not be able to get back? How could we still ... can jump really high there, but you will still come back to the surface. There are small asteroids that would have such a low ... :K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer
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... able to stop and bring a piece of the planet home. It will be a long time before we are able to do that. Fortunately there's a lot we can learn without bringing any pieces back to Earth.
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Answer provided by Dr. John Spencer, Ph.D.
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