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Yes, you will be able to hear normally, but some spacecraft are as noisy as airplanes. ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF Dr. Richard ...

... will smell totally different than they might on the ground. So although you can smell normally in space, you might find that certain items you tolerate on the ground are offensive ...

We need to have air around us to breathe in oxygen. Just like scuba divers have to carry their air in tanks with them when they go underwater, astronauts have to carry their air with them as well. So far there is no planet or moon we have found that has an atmosphere like we have on Earth. ---- Answer provided by Lonnie Moffitt & Russell Romanella Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

'''Author - D. Wade '''Co-Author(s)''' - '''JBIS Volume ''' - Contents of the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society for Volume 64 64 '''Page ''' - 319-324 '''Year''' - 2011 '''Keywords''' - Space insurance, space weather, forecasting, risks '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2011.64.319 '''Number of Pages''' - 6 Abstract This paper considers the implications of space weather ...

This may be possible but it is more likely that there will be a network of distant satellites or other unmanned spacecraft that will be sent deep into the solar system to monitor approaching meteors and asteroids. If any such object is detected, a message would be sent to many different Earth stations at the same time. ---- Answer provided by Ron Kohl Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

Being in space does not directly affect your sense of smell; however one of the effects of weightlessness is to cause the fluids in your body to go to your head. This causes congestion that is similar to having a cold. Astronauts report that this congestion can affect their ability to smell. ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF Dr. Richard S. Williams Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and ...

Up to now almost all astronauts have just stayed about a hundred miles up in space, and have spent time in various space stations, like the International Space Station (ISS). Twenty-four brave astronauts took a trip to the Moon over forty years ago, and twelve of them even walked on its surface. ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer ...

None of today's astronauts has been any higher than LEO orbit, at about 250 miles altitude, and they go around the Earth once every 90 minutes. Some of them stay at the International Space Station (ISS) for as long as six months at a time, going around the Earth sixteen times a day, every day. ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer ...

The idea of creating a shield to form an artificial environment has been around for a long time. This may be possible someday but currently, it would be very expensive and very difficult to build. This shield could not be large enough to encompass a planet or the Moon but possibly could be large enough to contain a small community. ---- Answer provided by Lonnie Moffitt & Russell ...

In space, one can see the light from stars hundreds of light years away. Vision in space does not improve, but you can see distant things more clearly because there is no atmosphere to interfere with the light coming into your eyes. ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF Dr. Richard S. Williams Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie ...

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