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... have to worry about. Apollo astronauts left special instruments on the Moon, and a special laser at the McDonald Observatory in western Texas bounces a laser off these instruments. Careful measurement of the results has shown us that the Moon is moving slowly away from us, at about 1.5 inches per year. http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html (See ...
The solid rocket boosters provide the main thrust to lift off the Space Shuttle. Without them, the Space Shuttle could not get off the launch pad.
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... , the Milky Way, it is so much more immense that we have to use different ways to describe distances. So we use light years. That sounds like a measurement of time, but it is not. It is a distance. A light year is about six million million miles, and the ...
... much more time together socially than American astronauts. Since the International Space Station has been in operation, part of the training program is for the international crew members to spend time working together to get familiar with how each ...
The Andromeda Galaxy, which is the closest large galaxy to Earth, is about 2.9 million light years away. Andromeda and the Milky Way are heading toward each other and will collide in about three billion years But the closest galaxy to us was only recently discovered, in November 2003, and is called the ...
... our Universe. Because the distances are so great in our Universe, we use the speed of light to call out distances to the very edge of our observable Universe in light years, which is how far light can travel in space in one year at a speed of ...
The amount of propellants required to reach escape velocity depends on the type of rocket, the weight of the rocket structure, whether there is staging—that is, separating the booster in two or more segments— the amount of payload, the type ...
... at right angles to each other, but very close. The differences in the lengths of these three axes give the Moon a sort of egg shape (but not very much), with the fat end pointing to Earth, and its ... maps yet of the Moon to have an exact number for the diameters noted above, but on average the diameter of the Moon is about ~ 2,160 miles. http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html (See ...
... to develop spacesuits much lighter and more durable than the current spacesuits. Many sporting events similar to those on Earth will be played on the Moon. However, there will be one big exception. The low gravity on the Moon ...
... get to using nuclear rockets in space, we'll be able to get to the Moon ... the equivalent of the Earth's gravity at its surface, or 1g. This means a lot of acceleration, which means very high speeds are reached, much higher than the ...
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