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Shuttles typically have seven to fourteen day missions but usually have enough expendables to go longer if required. (Ref. 1) Ref 1.NASA, ... , 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 Jon H. Brown Image ...

... 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 ...

... thousand miles across. The tail of a comet can be up to several million miles long. ---- Answer provided by Alan Hale, Ph.D. & Capt. USN (Ret.) William Readdy Image:K2S logosmall ...

The most common space missions are Shuttle missions and usually last about a week. If the astronauts go to the ISS, they can ...

It takes eight and 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 ... the same rate that the planet is spinning To return to Earth, it takes the Shuttle about one hour. ---- Answer provided by Hazel McAndrews Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer ...

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 ... at Jupiter in December of 1973, traveling for a year and nine months. The Cassini mission, launched in October of 1997, did not arrive at Jupiter until December of 2000, traveling ...

... Shuttle flights last about ten days. Extended duration missions began in 1992 when the orbiter Columbia, outfitted with extended duration orbiter (EDO) hardware carrying up additional oxygen supplies, embarked on the longest Shuttle flight to date at that time, Mission STS-50 ...

... take a few hours with a small section of the trip in space itself. There are also companies which sell trips on the International Space Station (ISS). Other companies such as ... 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 ... 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 ...

... point is completely dependent upon the form of propulsion used. For astronauts these days the Shuttle is used. This fires liquid propellant from nozzles and can increase its speed by small ... of days using a standard liquid propellant fuel. Between planets distances are much greater—for instance the Earth and Mars are on average about 62 million miles apart. This is a ... Mercury and Venus would also take less than a year to reach. The outer planets are much further away and they would take years to reach in a conventional spacecraft. ---- Answer ...

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