International Space Station

One would think that the amount of oxygen used, would be the same as a herd of purple rhinos and black hippos, in the same situation. That is assuming a space craft could be developed that would carry the weight of the said animals to the space station in the first place

The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986. The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry on February 1, 2003. There were seven astronauts on each shuttle, and all perished during these events. The breakup of the space shuttle Challenger was caused by the failure of two O- rings in one of the solid rocket boosters (SRB's) to properly seal. There had been problems with the seal on other missions, but it is thought that the decision to launch in near-freezing temperatures contributed to the failure, making the seal rigid and unable to seal properly. This led to a catastrophic chain of events. Hot gases escaped from the SRB, followed by a flame, damaging the clamp securing the SRB, and burning through the external fuel tank causing the tank to disintegrate. The forces created caused the orbiter to disintegrate (it did not explode) before the debris crashed into the ocean. The Columbia Space Shuttle disintegrated upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003. The Columbia sustained damage to its thermal protection system during launch. NASA suspected damage to the shuttle while they were still in orbit, but decided the foam would not have caused enough damage to endanger the shuttle. The damage allowed hot gases to penetrate and destroy the internal wing structure, causing the shuttle break up upon re-entry.

The gravitational pull of the Sun keeps the planets in orbit without "falling." This is the same effect the Earth has on the Moon.

bad food, lonely, no gravity, no bathroom, no fresh air, cramped, cold

They will have to recycle the water.

Does* Yes, up to seven at a time. These are usually from multiple countries worldwide (hence the International space station) and the current (2/24/13) crew is from the US, Russia, and Canada.

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It was the first space station built by American astronauts. It was abandoned in 1974. It re-entered and burned up in Earth's atmosphere in 1979.

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Mir (Мир) was the first Russian space station. The word means Peace, World or Society. It was was operational from 1986 to 2001.

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12 altogether. There were 9 Russian Salyut space stations and also Mir, the US' Skylab, and now the International Space Station.

Because if it took off horizontally, it would continue to circle the earth, hitting all those people in the boats that are watching the take-off, then continue until it came to a land mass and possibly strike buildings, vehicles, people...until it exploded into a fireball of great magnitude. So, to avoid this, NASA decided to have the shuttles take off vertically. < It takes off vertically to reach less dense air ( less drag and aerodynamic heating ), and then begins a pitch maneuver to increase its tangential ( to the Earth) velocity; which eventually leads to a continuous orbit about the Earth. This procedure reduces the necessary on board mass of propellant on the spacecraft. The shuttle is essentially in free fall around the Earth ( imagine a cannon being fired at such a speed that it as it falls, the curvature of the Earth decreases in a proportional manner).>

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1. Gotoheavens-above.com and click database and select your location 2. Now in home page, click "ISS" to see a table of ISS timings Note direction and timings and look at the sky at exact time and you will definitely catch a good glimpse of it. The more the negative value of "MAG" in the the table implies more Brightness

Sun N Sand is nearer to Dadar than Mumbai CST. From Mumbai CST it would be 30 odd kms, whereas from Dadar it would be 15 odd kms. It should take 45 -90 minutes depending upon the traffic situation from Dadar to Sun n Sand.

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NO getting the equipment into space would cost much more than just launching them from earth. First you have to get it up to the space station then you have launch it.....what kinda question is this?

Solid human waste is compressed, stored and loaded onto the next shuttle or Progress supply craft. The Progress and its contents burn up during re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere. Shuttles return the waste to Earth. Urine is processed to become usable as water for drinking and washing.

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It is possible to see the ISS pass overhead. There are websites that will tell you when it can be seen from your location, some of which are listed below. This only happens in any part of the world about every two months, but it will then happen regularly for about 10 days to two weeks, so you would get lots of chances to see it. It looks like a bright moving star, taking a few minutes to pass over.

I found this article at Space.com (see link in related links) I hope is helps. "Built by Russian engineers, the Elektron device aboard the space station uses electrolysis to separate water into hydrogen, which is dumped overboard, and oxygen. The 1,500-pound (680-kilogram) OGS rack works in much the same way, and will be able to provide 12 pounds of breathable oxygen daily under normal operations, NASA officials said."

Space stations are not important for scientific research. They are important for space exploration, that is in order to put humans on Mars. However, instruments like the Hubble space telescope are much more important for scientific research as they enable us to look into unknown regions of space. As such they improve our understanding of the universe. Of similar importance are particle accelerators like the LHC at CERN in Switzerland which probe matter at the smallest scale and thus help us understand fundamental questions of particle physics for example the origin of mass.

The first US space station was Skylab