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Since you can already float in space, swimming in a blob of water wouldn't be much fun. The water won't stay in a pool in micro-gravity, so you would have to have a swimming room, and you would need to wear an oxygen mask so you could breathe. Now, swimming through a room of those plastic balls—that would be fun ---- Answer provided by US Space and Rocket Center Image:K2S logosmall.jpg ...

... the ISS is actually in a free fall path around the Earth called an orbit, everything inside the spacecraft is also falling at the same rate. We think of it as being ... swimming pool where your weight is counterbalanced by the water and you can propel yourself through the pool with easy arm strokes and leg kicks. This is exactly what it feels like in space but without the water. And it does take some time to get used to moving in this environment. You have to be very ...

When filling out paperwork on their clipboards, astronauts routinely set aside their pens in midair while they reach to adjust a dial on a piece of equipment, and then ... Jim Zebrowski Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks ...

... to solve our problems peacefully. Hopefully, the humans who travel into space will be a lot better at peaceful solutions than we have been here on Earth so far. ---- Answer provided by Sheryl L. Bishop, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks.com/Books/For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space ...

... our computers, and we can talk to teachers on Earth via a radio link, and even hook up a small TV camera to see each other. If we work in space or on the Moon, then that is where we would be going to work. But to travel back and ... to work would be very difficult because it takes too long to travel. When we go to space, we will bring a special computer with us. ---- Answer provided by John Cavallaro Image:K2S ...

... ways to travel in space, just like we can use airplanes, cars or ships to travel on Earth. Most engineers expect we will use special spacecraft that are meant to operate only in space to land on the Moon or Mars. We ... & Gary Hudson Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks ...

Well, our favorite energy is electricity and we use a lot of it in space. We use it for lighting, heating, communications, motors, and many other things. We can produce electricity using fuel cells, large arrays ... or Mars, we might mine minerals to use in electrical power generators. ---- Answer provided by Jon H. Brown Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by ...

We do live in space Our perspective from low Earth orbit has showed that Earth is a small fragile ecosystem ... as we can, using some of the insights we have gained from our first steps into nearby space. References:(See CDROM) http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q2136.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/outer.space ... Jim Zebrowski Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks ...

... here on Earth, and even wearing sunglasses. The same is true in space. As we fly further out into the solar system, we will always be able to see the Sun, but it will ... .) William Readdy Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks ...

When you are in space you can see even more of the night sky than you can see from here on the ground. On Earth the atmosphere distorts and scatters some of the light coming from stars. Also in space ... Jim Zebrowski Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks ...

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