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... construction we try to simplify our design by making things in standard or modular sizes. Having different sizes of space modules will mean customized engineering and manufacturing, and that will drive up costs. A great thing about building modules of standard sizes is that you can connect them together like building blocks. The modules will be approximately ...

Yes, there are different sizes of spacesuits. Each astronaut is individually fitted with his or her own spacesuit. As some ... . You will be able to walk into a spacesuit store and say, "I want a size 13 suit please." ---- Answer provided by Lonnie Moffitt Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer ...

Stars come in a wide variety of sizes, from the tiny neutron stars that are the size of a small city to the super-giant stars that are nearly as large as ...

... expect the planets to be different from each other, as different as rocks of different sizes and shapes in a field. ---- Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall ...

Spacesuits will be made to fit all body types. Inside the pressurized space station, spacesuits will merely be worn as a precautionary measure in case of emergencies if life support systems go down, pressure is lost, or to help with bodily changes that occur in zero-gravity environments. Clothing will have to be roomy to allow for changes to the body in zero-gravity environments. To walk outside ...

Almost certainly there will be a limited amount of weight and space that will be allocated to each passenger. Probably the carrier will take care of the essentials necessary for survival, such as a safe habitat, food and water, temperature control and so forth. You will most likely get to pack your own clothes and probably will get clean clothes each day. You will also want to take the things ...

No, they do not. ---- Answer provided by Ed Frederick, Ph.D. 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 Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - PLANETS

... nomenclature of today, the Apollo guidance computer had 72 kilobytes of memory. … Today we have megabytes and gigabytes. But this was 72 kilobytes. …Several copies of the Apollo guidance memory… would fit ... , that the computer memory actually was what had been tested on these large, big room-size simulators . So that was the scheme. NASA never really liked it, but it did put ... . But everything had to be very carefully done to try to keep within the memory size , and also it was not a fast computer, so things had to be done carefully ...

... when he gets to being an astronaut is he has to get a bigger hat size. They got an awful lot of notoriety and attention, and, frankly, some of them handled ... , those two computers we had in the command module and the lunar module had 64 kilobytes of memory, and all the while the lunar module was calculating the path to the ... where the command module was and calculating an abort path up there. All at 64 kilobytes. That's why we had those famous alarms and overloads when they were coming down ...

... impacted tremendously. It’s still amazing to me. I remember when they got to 128 kilobytes, that we thought that was a lot of memory, and that was probably adequate. And ... amazing to me that we could have put a lunar landing program on a 128-kilobyte machine. Of course bigger and faster computers simplified the generation and documentation of planning products ...

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