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It costs so much because it's very hard. It takes a huge amount of effort to design, build, test and operate spacecraft. Most of ... has to do with Earth's gravity. Other factors, such as insurance and permit/licensing costs add a lot to the price as well.
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With current rocket engines and spacecraft technology, it does take a long time to travel anywhere in space. A trip to Mars will take ... the other planets will take us many years to reach. It takes so long to get to certain places purely because they are so far away. Some unmanned missions have been able to ... slingshot effect. This is possible when a spacecraft flies close enough to a planet that it is able to 'steal' a little of the planet's orbital velocity. Of course these ...
... will definitely include your pre-flight training. Today it costs thousands of dollars to prepare a passenger for a spaceflight. In the future, it will be a few hundred dollars at the most ...
... you want to know how much it costs NASA to fly the Space Shuttle once, then that number is a little easier to find. Depending on how you count it's between $500 million ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here
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... . The original costs varied from Shuttle to Shuttle. The early ones, like Columbia, cost approximately $2 billion, in round numbers. The later ones cost even more. This number does not include the costs of the ... Space Shuttle program and all of its facilities at around $150 billion. Of course at this point, the Space Shuttle program is facing retirement in 2010, so in a very short while ...
When the solar system was formed it was a swirling mass of material which became the Sun and planets. The planets continue ... , because there is nothing to stop them. In addition, each planet continues to spin on its axis for the same reason. The Earth takes 24 hours to spin around once, thus ... and day. When the astronauts went to the Moon in 1969, it took them three days to get there, so they could see the Earth spin three times during their journey.
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... one pound to the ISS is $5,000. Launching the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, cost much more. Each of those rovers were built and launched for $500 million apiece
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... the Space Station is carried there from the Earth on board our spacecraft. The average cost of carrying water up from the Earth's surface to low Earth orbit is approximately ...
... you need. Each person's body is a little different in terms of the time it takes to adjust to weightlessness. I would imagine that sometimes the astronauts feel annoyed that ...
Space itself is extremely black, but it presents a wonderful backdrop for the Earth with its rich blues, vivid greens and puffs of white.
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