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No, the stars are still so far away that they are just points of light, so we don' ... could fly close to another star would it look bigger. ---- Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by ... /For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html Click here Category:Kids To Space Category:Kids To Space - STARS

... EXPRESS TO THE STARS''' by Newell, H. E. ''New York, 1961: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 324 pages, $5.75'' A book for the general reader, it covers, in turn, rocket history, functioning ... systems, types of missiles, rocket airplanes, space vehicles, astrodynamics, and manned space flight. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History ...

... REACHING FOR THE STARS''' by Bergaust, E. ''New York, 1960: Doubleday and Co., Inc., 407 pages, $4.95'' A biography of Dr. Wernher von Braun, the book is written in a simple, easy ... use of the V2, and the transfer of von Braun and his team to the US after World War II. The book recounts the main events of von Braun's life through the launching of the early Explorer satellites and Pioneer probes and the development of the Saturn space ...

... MAN AMONG THE STARS''' by Müller, W. ''New York, 1957: Criterion Books, Inc., 307 pages, $4.95'' The book probes the beginnings, prospects, and significance of man's imminent venture into space ... such subjects as religion in space, the mind and the universe, the meaning of the exploration of space, "creatures that may await us," and the urge for discovery. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of ...

In principle, humans could travel to stars but it would take a very long time. Since stars are very hot by human standards, people would not want to get too close to them. At this time, we do not have the technology to send a mission to a star in a reasonable amount of time. ---- Answer provided by Dirk Terrell, Ph.D. Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space ...

... a spaceship could travel to the farthest stars within a human lifetime. Assuming hyperspace as being characterized by imaginary time, it is shown that the limitations due to the extremely long time required for ... click http://www.jbis.org.uk/paper.php?p=2003.56.205 here ''' ---- Journal of the British Interplanetary Society JBIS is © 1934-2013 http://www.bis-space.com British Interplanetary Society ...

... with a return to the Moon and future landings on Mars determined to be near term goals. But the true vision for space exploration is interstellar travel to other stars and habitable worlds. This paper will discuss some of the historical propulsion concepts, which aim to achieve this stated mission. This includes fusion, antimatter, solar sail and more exotic concepts like the ...

... is held on the seventh night of the seventh month in celebration of the annual meeting of the stars Vega (or ''Orihime'' , the seamstress) and Altair (or ''Hikoboshi'' , the ox-herder) that are separated by the Milky Way ... have been one of the earliest practical uses of astronomical information. Clearly the apparent rising and setting of the Sun and Moon affected humans and the Earth. So also might the stars generally, it was often ...

... the factors which when combined create the necessary conditions to support life, depends upon the characteristics of both the star system and the planetary body. The size and type of the central star most directly affect this, with the intensity of radiation output defining a minimum and maximum orbital radius from the star ...

... . 2 : Almost buried in the issue of the newspaper the ''Evening Star'' of Washington, D.C. for 5 September 1948 is the following small item titled “To the Moon?” : “To the Moon? Toronto --- The Canadian Rocket Society is ... added that besides his work for the Canadian Rocket Society he additionally helped the Science Clubs of America and the “Y” Science Clubs, while another in the item in the Star for 26 September 1968 mentioned that he was also a part-time science teacher. In fact, Diamond remained a science teacher for many years and in the 1990s ...

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