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... most of the light hitting its surface so it appears black to our eyes. You might think of black in space as an area of space which is not illuminated by our Sun or another star, so the black in space is actually the absence of any light ...
The Sun is our nearest star and is composed of mostly hydrogen and helium. It is a giant ball of incandescent gas 872,000 miles in diameter, which gives off energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
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One reason scientists think that the Moon came from an enormous impact long ago in Earth's history—the big whack theory—is that the abundance of elements in the Moon's crust are very similar to those found in the Earth's crust. These chemicals are all mixed together in the form of ...
... in an arc trajectory, like a ball flying through the air (this when the rocket is not powerful enough to reach orbit). The first sub-orbital hop was by astronaut Commander Alan ... number of people who have completed sub-orbital hops, including the SpaceShipOne pilots Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie. The shortest duration flight for someone reaching orbit was the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the ...
Flying in space is dangerous, and always will be. It's an unforgiving environment. Currently we have lost one ... . Col. USAF (Ret.) William G. Gregory
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... of sleep a night. This is probably due to a variety of factors, such as a busy schedule, and the adaptation to spaceflight. On longer duration missions they can get six to eight hours of sleep a night, depending on the person.
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In July 2005, a portion of the Deep Impact spacecraft actually collided with a comet—a planned collision. The rest of the spacecraft passed a few miles away from the comet's nucleus.
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Answer provided ... .D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy
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... horizontally at speeds of at least 17,500 miles per hour (mph) but remain under the influence of Earth's gravity. When the calculations are done correctly, there is a tug of war between the tendency to speed off in a straight line, and Earth's attraction, which results in pulling the spacecraft back into a circuit of the Earth. At the lowest orbital ...
... can be launched from Earth. The limiting factor usually is the lift capability of the booster—in the case of the NASA Space Shuttle, the two solid rocket boosters plus the three main engines. The NASA Space Shuttle weighs about 4.5 million pounds at lift off, and the ...
... is a rotating black hole in space, there is a chance for an object to fall into a black hole at a certain approach angle that would allow it to miss the singularity in the center of the black ... within our Universe or perhaps be connected to different universes. Now that I have described what it is, I must emphasize that scientists currently do not believe white holes or worms holes ...
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