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The longest space journeys were made by the Voyager spacecraft which were launched in 1977—28 years ago. Voyager 1 has now traveled over 8.6 billion miles and is the furthest man-made object from Earth. The longest manned space journey ...
... be launched from Earth. The limiting factor usually is the lift capability of the booster—in the case of the NASA Space Shuttle, the two solid rocket boosters plus the three main engines. The NASA Space Shuttle weighs about 4.5 million pounds at lift off, and the ...
... in space since then, but only by going around and around the Earth in low Earth orbit (LEO) in a space station for several months at a time. The next big journey, after the return to the Moon, will be to Mars.
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... not be strenuous or difficult or make you nauseous. If moving simulators make you nauseous, or if flying on the zero-gravity plane makes you nauseous, and those are things you ... Tim Bailey & Loretta Hidalgo
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... the exhaust velocity, and this is typical of spacecraft using electric propulsion engines. The ideal velocity assumes the rocket burn takes place in space beyond the influence of gravity. It is usually calculated using the ...
... eyes. You might think of black in space as an area of space which is not illuminated by our Sun or another star, so the black in space is actually the absence of any light as interpreted by our eyes.
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The NASA Space Shuttle orbiter is designed to carry a payload of 65,000 pounds and a crew of eight, or perhaps ten in an emergency. It weighs about 172,000 pounds empty and ... for launch. (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 ...
... big like the Earth, or they are really big like Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto is the smallest; smaller than our Moon.
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... for one second. Kinetic energy is the energy of motion and is also measured in joules, equal to half the mass multiplied by the velocity squared. For example, one joule is the energy in a two ... with some powdered aluminum in it, mixed with ammonium perchlorate as the oxidizer. The upper stages of the Saturn V and the Space Shuttle main engines utilize LOX and liquid hydrogen as propellant. This ...
Pluto is the coldest and Venus is the hottest.
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