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... we agree that there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 24 hours in a day, then those time measurements will always be the same unless we ... turn once on its axis, we will find that different planets take different numbers of hours, minutes, and seconds to make the turn. Scientists have observed all of the planets in ... of days on all of the planets, but we still measure those lengths in the hours, minutes, and seconds that we define here on Earth. ---- Answer provided by Luke Keller, Ph ...

Space travelers would most likely still use a 24-hour clock, so that days would be the same length as on Earth. However, once space ... to noon the next day—might be shorter or longer than 24 hours. That means that 24-hour Earth time might not correspond to the proper time of day or night ...

... took about two days to get to the Moon—that is, 48 hours, and three days, or 72 hours, to get back. ---- Answer provided by Hazel McAndrews Image:K2S logosmall.jpg ...

... not be moving fast enough—though they may be moving thousands of miles per hour— to notice this difference in the rate of time passing. Therefore minutes and hours will be the same length for space travelers as they are back on Earth. Space ...

On short missions astronauts often get only five or six hours of sleep a night. This is probably due to a variety of factors, such as ... , and the adaptation to spaceflight. On longer duration missions they can get six to eight hours of sleep a night, depending on the person. ---- Answer provided by Dr. Jay C. Buckey ...

There is no average mile per hour. It depends on where you want to go with your rocket. There are minimum speeds ...

... atmosphere it takes 90 minutes to go once around. So that means in a 24-hour day, if you look down from orbit, you get to see 16 sunrises and 16 ...

I think the fastest speed was the Saturn rocket, which pushed the Apollo spacecraft to speeds of 25,000+ mph. ---- Answer provided by John Cavallaro 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 ...

... :''' So you see that the crew gets what? Eight hours of sleep? If they work 16 hours? '''Clancy:''' For Shuttle, it’s eight hours of sleep. We also give them some time before ... . Okay, they fall on flight day two, from MET Mission Elapsed Time 16 hours to MET to 18 hours. We deem this as critical, because it’s an inspection, and we really ... . '''Ross-Nazzal:''' I didn’t read very much about that. '''Hansen:''' Yes. It wasn’t hours at a time. This is the PGSC Payload and General-Support Computer usage chart. This ...

... :''' So you see that the crew gets what? Eight hours of sleep? If they work 16 hours? '''Clancy:''' For Shuttle, it’s eight hours of sleep. We also give them some time before ... . Okay, they fall on flight day two, from MET Mission Elapsed Time 16 hours to MET to 18 hours. We deem this as critical, because it’s an inspection, and we really ... . '''Ross-Nazzal:''' I didn’t read very much about that. '''Hansen:''' Yes. It wasn’t hours at a time. This is the PGSC Payload and General-Support Computer usage chart. This ...

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