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Yes, but there will also be new experiences such as weightlessness. ---- Answer provided by Lucy Jane Miller, Ph.D. OTR 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 ...

... characteristic of the F-111 is its versatility. The F-IIIA - the Air Force version-can penetrate supersonically on the deck for interdiction or low altitude tactical reconnaissance. For ... conflicting demands? The answer is obvious-develop a variable sweep wing aircraft. Contrary to some impressions, the variable sweep design is not new. A variable sweep design was used in the Bell ...

... edge of the mask… One whole tube was needed just to get one non-linear variable. So it was…hard to simulate airplanes… Airplanes require a number of static and rotary ... the simulation was—I think we ended up with something like 120 functions and two variables, derivatives so we could put in all the static derivatives and all the rotors derivatives ... Apollo. The idea then of having—which we didn't really need it in my version—the Gemini really didn't need any extravehicular astronaut activity, but obviously in developing suits ...

... Systems Division sent in their recommendation to use a version of the planned Phoenix booster called Space Launch System A388. This version of Phoenix would have been powered by solid-rockets on ... bat-wing that was partially derived from the Northrup flying wing) and the B-1 (variable geometry supersonic bomber) might have been unnecessary, the Dyna-Soar antipodal hypersonic space-bomber might ...

... , necessarily, for those missions. So the choice was to stay with the new version or a modified version of the Apollo suit. And from the standpoint of, there wasn't a lot ... be retrieved and brought and we can reconnect either hydraulics—there's a hydraulic version—or an electrical version. So we had a lot of different kinds of hardware designs, as well ... it does. That, to me, is fascinating as anything, that it all works. Too many variables to make it all come off and on time. Although we have launched some in ...

... are also engaging our will and our intelligence to create either a larger scale version (or smaller scale version) of the subject we are modeling. We may also be communicating our model ... to understand. The first sense of model is technological, preparing to build a different scale version of the model. The second sense is scientific, our attempt to understand something such as ... what new things can be done. There will be surprises. Rotating space stations can provide variable artificial gravity, from almost nil to many times Earth gravity. The space environment has the ...

... of the torch and weld joint during welding. Values for up to 5 constantly changing variables, measured and fed into the control computer to maintain constant speed and angle, could easily ... more frequently. The contract would call for development on a cost-sharing basis of commercial versions of the equipment for purchase and use by industry. MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC 's ... . Work had been completed on two of the six MLS configurations: a small community airport version and a basic system for most commercial fields. Still to be developed were the "expanded ...

... the Russians is absurd.” ‘‘(Science, 3/25/66, 1477)’’ Series of power tests for breadboard version of Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application NERVA (Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application) was ... space. The glow was localized here. It could have been due to the release of variable quantities of marsh gas.” Rotting vegetation in swamps produces the gas, Dr. Hynek said, “which ...

... during most of the mission. The GOES laboratory would monitor operating data to detect any variables in performance with time and temperatures. NASA had advised NOAA that, based on preliminary analyses ... Systems Group had conducted the test program for MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC . The test version of the propulsion system had consisted of three Shuttle main engines mounted on an ...

... use of variable-sweep wings. First version of the supersonic transport would be a freight carrier, not only because it can be introduced with a lower safety factor than a passenger version but ...

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