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The Columbia Space Shuttle broke up when it re-entered the atmosphere because it was moving at extremely high speed and its heat shield was damaged, which let in hot gases created by the high velocity of the vehicle passing though the atmosphere ...
The atmosphere can be turbulent at heights up to an altitude called the turbopause, at around 50 miles. Above that altitude turbulence stops. Astronauts experience bumps and strong vibrations at the lower altitudes during the ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... when the Space Shuttle undergoes re-entry. On orbit the Shuttle is moving at about 15,000 miles per hour. The Shuttle's engines fire and the Shuttle slows, drops down and encounters higher atmospheric densities. The atmosphere slows the Shuttle down to ...
... leave, sometimes with a jolt, it is like sitting on a big electric motor. The spacecraft just hums.
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Answer provided by Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.) William G. Gregory
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No, nothing would be able to survive a trip through the Sun. As you go through the Sun, the density and temperature rise rapidly, simultaneously crushing and vaporizing anything that would attempt such a ... miles from Earth, recently witnessed the 1000th comet crashing into the Sun Needless to say the comet, which is mostly frozen ice with small amounts of rock, did not get very far before it ...
... . There is no atmospheric sound, there is no onset of gforces and there is little visual indication that we are descending. When we encounter the atmosphere, approximately 400,000 feet above the Earth, there is an increase of sound caused by the air rushing by the orbiter, a feeling of heaviness caused by the onset of ...
... will not have to go through the full two years of astronaut training.
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Answer provided by Tim Bailey & Loretta Hidalgo
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The orbiter is protected during re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere by a very complex heat shield made up of thermal insulation and carbon ceramic tiles. This heat shield insulates the aluminum structure ... melting. "Ball of fire" is a good description of the air around the spacecraft. The kinetic energy at the tremendous re-entry speed causes the air to heat dramatically and dissociate into ions that glow ...
... 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 ...
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Answer provided by Jon H. Brown
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... or downward through the atmosphere. The slower transit would reduce the heating hazard on re-entry.
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Answer provided by Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D.
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