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Humans are not adapted to space. The natural space environment would kill a human due to the lack of pressure, atmosphere, heat, and the exposure to radiation. Therefore, when traversing from one vehicle or habitat to another, the vehicles or habitats need to be docked together, or the spacefarer needs to be in a spacesuit, since a human in space must have a spacesuit of some kind to supply the ...

At first, we likely will use ion propulsion. This is a type of rocket that expels a gas at very high speed—four or five times faster than a typical rocket. Ion propulsion is very efficient per gallon of fuel, but not very strong. It's like using the highest gear on a bicycle—if you are on level ground, you can get going very fast, but you cannot pedal up a steep hill in high gear. ...

Most scientists believe that life does exist elsewhere but the question of intelligent life is still unanswered. The timetable for human expansion into space would make your generation one of the first explorers since we are not planning on reaching Mars with human teams until about 2030. Space is big. It can hold as many people as we can find the technology to put there. ---- Answer provided ...

There are no space animals known yet, but there might be a small possibility that we may someday find signs of life on other planets— either in our own solar system or elsewhere. ---- Answer provided by Bijal Thakore Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy ...

The time it takes to travel from any point in space to another 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 amounts but this is only suitable for ferrying astronauts and equipment to the Space Station and back again. Between an orbiting hotel and the Moon ...

Today there are six different places in the US where some kind of launch can take place. Most of them have been there for ages—like Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Vandenberg in California, Wallops Island in Virginia, and White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The newest one is Mojave, in the high desert behind Los Angeles. This is where the X Prize flights took place in 2004, and ...

Yes, we can bring all these things, but we will have to modify them to use whatever voltage there is on the rocket we are on. We can go to school by using books that are loaded onto our computers, and we can talk to teachers on Earth via a radio link, and even hook up a small TV camera to see each other. If we work in space or on the Moon, then that is where we would be going to work. But to ...

There are so many immediate benefits that this is only a small portion: smoke detectors; motion sensing burglar alarms; freeze-dried foods; the wear-resistant soles of athletic shoes; graphite fishing poles, golf clubs, and tennis rackets; automatic bank teller machines; solar heating systems; metallized emergency blankets; offshore deep-water oil rigs; rapid bacterial infection analysis; better ...

We have an International Space Station (ISS) in low Earth orbit right now. Sometimes you can see it at night crossing the sky. We need to do all the planning and design before we can build ships and places off the Earth. ---- Answer provided by John Spencer Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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