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... nucleus of a comet is usually a few miles across. The coma, or fuzzy head, of a comet may be a few thousand miles across. The tail of a comet can be up to several million miles long. ---- Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph ... %20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS

... down from orbit, you get to see 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets—and they are all particularly beautiful in space ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy ...

... board your spacecraft. These tanks are used to re-fill the oxygen used on an EVA. Some very intelligent people on the ground know in advance how much oxygen you will need during your space trip and will make sure you have enough stored oxygen to last. The oxygen tanks on board the spacecraft are pretty ...

Shuttles typically have seven to fourteen day missions but usually have enough expendables to go longer if required. (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/technology/sts-newsref/stsreftoc.html sts-umbilical-doors ---- Answer provided by ...

It takes Jupiter 11.85 Earth years to travel once around the Sun. ---- Answer provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno 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 ...

... one-half minutes for the Space Shuttle to reach a low Earth orbit. How long an orbit takes depends on how high above the Earth the orbit is. For low Earth orbit (about 200 miles above the Earth) it takes about 90 minutes to complete a full orbit. Some orbits are ...

How long we would have to stay inside a spaceship would depend on where we were traveling, or, if it were a manned space platform, how soon before the relief ship came and our work there was completed. As long as the physical needs of human beings are met they could, in principle ... we are not limited. However the psychological needs of humans must also be considered. Being inside an enclosed spaceship, unless it is city-sized, would affect all of us over long periods ...

How long it takes to get to a planet depends on what path we take to get there and how fast we are traveling. The Voyager 1 probe, launched in September of 1977, arrived ...

... a few asteroids in various other places as well, including some that are within Earth's orbit, and others that are beyond Jupiter and Saturn. ---- Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph.D ... %20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - ASTEROIDS, COMETS, AND METEORS

... which sell trips on the International Space Station (ISS). Other companies such as Space Adventures are planning for future trips to private space stations with trips lasting one to two weeks. The time constraints for human missions into space are shaped by cost, fuel, supplies, and of course the effects that weightlessness and the space ... agencies across the world are working to combat the effects of space to allow astronauts to spend longer in space and ultimately to allow them to travel on long journeys to other ...

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