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... the houses and other facilities and ships in orbit will have storage places for food, water, and air. Most of the resources will be recycled and reused many times. We will grow our own food in space farms and make air from materials we process on the Moon and Mars.
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We would get electrical power from fuel cells, solar panels or nuclear power.
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Answer provided by John Cavallaro
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... water tanks, from which we can get water for drinking, for re-hydrating our dried food, and for washing. Also, the Shuttle's fuel cells combine hydrogen and oxygen for the purpose of generating electricity. Fortunately, very clean water ...
... oxygen in canisters and this is fed into the Shuttle cabin. The Space Station carries water which has electricity passed through it to separate it into oxygen and hydrogen. On the Space Station we carry up water and use a system called the elektron generator, a Russian-built system that uses electrical power to split water molecules into breathable oxygen and waste ...
We have already sent space probes to Mercury and Venus.
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Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D.
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... matter where we go in the solar system, we would need to build habitats for growing plants. These habitats would protect the plants from the cold, radiation and lack of a suitable atmosphere, and we could use the regoliths as a substrate for growing the plants. Because there are nutrients in these regoliths, we would ...
... the human body, and completes a circuit back to the electrical source. Our bodiesw act the same in Space as they do on the Earth. This means that we can get an electrical shock ... you touch/stand/attach to something, and you touch something with electrical energy to allow that energy to pass through you and back, you will get a shock. But it is important to ...
... need fuel, oxygen, and a spark or heat source. So you can make a fire inside a spaceship that has a supply of oxygen. But in space where there is no air and therefore very little or no oxygen, you cannot make a fire.
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Answer provided by Luke Keller, Ph.D.
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... or stowage containers and placed in the multi payload logistics module (MPLM) for return to Earth at the end of the mission. The MPLM is used to bring supplies and science racks to the Station. Waste products returning to Earth can weigh several tons. Another way to get rid of some of the trash on ...
... is very thin, doesn't have any oxygen, and is incredibly cold as well, so we couldn't breathe it. Astronauts would have to carry their own air supplies and pressure suits, just like the astronauts who landed on the Moon had to do.
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Answer provided by Dr. John Spencer, Ph.D.
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