Astronauts

Roberta Bondar does like sports

Judith Resnik

Russian

The astronauts wear tethers whenever they exit the space station so that they remain attached to the station. Otherwise, without sufficient gravity to keep them close by, they could easily drift away into space.

The first song sung by American astronauts in outer space was "Jingle Bells." On December 16, 1965, astronauts Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford played a prank on mission control by singing the holiday tune during the Gemini 6 mission.

No--The Astronaut Farmer is purely a work of fiction.

The first manned Orion mission is expected to be some time in 2015; though there will be several more unmanned test flights before then.

Right now, Astronauts and Cosmonauts live inside the space station that orbits Earth.

12. Apollo 11 through 17 landed on the surface of the moon. Each had a three man crew, two astronauts continue to the surface of the moon in the Lunar Module leaving one astronaut to orbit the moon in the Command Module. People sometimes confuse the number because of Apollo 13's failure to land on the moon.

Most rockets take off from space launch facilities, such as the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, or the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. These facilities are specifically designed for launching rockets into space safely.

Officially, there were two all-hands fatal accidents in the Space Shuttle program- the Challenger disaster, which occured on the ascent, and the Columbia accident which broke up on re-entry. Both were Bi-gender Two females died in each incident. Three male astronauts died in a fire on the launch pad of the retro-numbered Apollo I which was not an in-flight accident. Officially, no US Astronaut has ever died in actual outer space- the three fatal accidents occured- one on the ground, one in the ascent phase within the atmosphere, and one on re-entry ( Columbia). There are rumors of a number of fatal Soviet space accidents which were hushed-up as secret missions.

They wear there regualr clothes it dsent hurt them to wear anything else

There have been no astronauts who's last name starts with the letter "Q".

You are thinking of Apollo l8. One of the two astronauts was bitten, clawed, etc by the Alien Moon creature ( we never get a good look at the monster) and he developed some kind of complication. The unaffected comrade was deemed by NASA and DOD ( Pentagon) to have been ( Contaminated) so the pair- and by inference the orbiting command pilot observer ( who was not affected- he did not land on the moon) were doomed to remain in space forever. ( cover stories about mysterious aircraft accidents in inaccesible places- were sold to next of kin, so the story goes). The Apollo XVIII crew landed on the far side or dark side of the moon- well, go look it up- a very controversial yarn.

Buzz Aldrin

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the tomatosphere is an exsparement that the scientist of NASA are doing. they are trying to see if tomatos can grow in their spae ships. this will give good food for the astronauts to eat in sted of thet bad dried space food!

Astronauts don't go to Mercury it's too hot and they could send probes or spacecraft there much more cheaply, safely, and easily if they really needed to.

No so far no man has set foot on the planet Neptune.

You get to experience living in space, floating around in a weightless environment, and viewing the earth from a third party perspective. Astronauts are viewed as the elite, and are often highly respected.

Astronauts travel to space using spacecraft like the SpaceX Crew Dragon or Russian Soyuz, which are designed to safely transport passengers to and from the International Space Station. These vehicles undergo rigorous testing for safety and reliability before each mission. In case of emergency, astronauts have escape systems and procedures in place to ensure a safe return to Earth.

The person on the ladder would not feel weightless because they are not in orbit, they are simply at a high altitude. If they let go, they would fall straight down towards the earth's center just as any other object which is being pulled on by gravity.

Orbit is achieved through velocity. With enough thrust, a rocket is able to propel an astronaut to a speed which will send him beyond the earth's gravitational field and straight into space (ie: "escape velocity"). However, by controlling the level of thrust and angle of inclination, the astronaut can be placed in an area of space that is somewhere "in-between" the pull of earth's gravity and the escape velocity. This is called "orbital velocity". The astronaut achieves ORBIT, and he is in a constant free-fall circling around the earth: not quite fast enough to escape the earth's gravity, but not so slow that he falls back to earth.

When a spacecraft needs to return to earth, thrusters are fired in the direction of orbit, which decreases forward speed, and allows the craft to return to earth via the earth's gravitational field with help from atmospheric drag.

People chosen to go into space typically come from a pool of select scientists and mathematicians. Once chosen, training is extremely intense and lasts for months and months.