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One of the favorite pastimes of all astronauts is to spend time in a darkened Shuttle near the window looking down on the Earth as it rapidly and silently moves below. It is an exhilarating and incredible feeling to see our entire blue planet against the jet black ...
For me the view of the magnificent planet on which we live was well worth the cost and time spent dedicated to training for the flight. Just imagine being able to watch sixteen sunrises and ... forever.
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Answer provided by Dennis Tito
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... either the Moon or Mars rovers. It is an important fact that the farther away a robot has to travel, the lighter it should be. The lighter something is, the cheaper it is to send into space. The smallest is the American rover Sojourner, launched to Mars in 1997. It weighed only 23 pounds.
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... structure on the Moon, and possibly in the solar system, is the Aitken Basin on the far side of the Moon. This impact was so large that it punched through the crust of the Moon and exposed the relatively warmer, softer mantle material underneath. It is ...
That is what I heard. One famous astronomer, Carl Sagan, called the Earth seen against a background of blackness and stars a "pale blue dot." Blue and white are the main colors that ... from far away. The blue comes from the oceans; the white comes from clouds and polar ice caps. When the Apollo astronauts looked back from the Moon, they thought the Earth looked beautiful for two reasons: one ...
... be a Shuttle crash in future flights. Spaceflight is at best an extremely dangerous business, but NASA can be depended on to make the Shuttle as space worthy as possible. And fortunately ... , NASA learns more and more about how to fly safely.
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... , 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.html sts ...
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... 0.0 miles per hour (mph) and goes faster and faster. By the time it reaches space it is traveling at least 17,000 mph. We don't have to go a specific speed to leave the atmosphere, but we have to be traveling at a minimum of 17,000 mph in order to stay in space and not crash to the Earth.
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... 243 Earth days. That means that on Venus one day is slightly longer than one year. In other words, it takes longer for Venus to complete ... provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno
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The risk of serious illness or injury is very low. The very low gravity levels eliminate the risk of injuries from falling, although you could still injure yourself from bumping into things in the spacecraft while floating around. Since no one is ...
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