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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttles are reusable spacecraft with wings for controlled descent into the atmosphere. They are designed to transport astronauts between earth and an orbiting space station and to deploy and retrieve satellites. Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour are the three Space Shuttles in operation today.
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Mainly, it has to:
(1) Move at a sufficiently high speed. Near the Earth's surface, that would be about 7.9 kilometers per second (7900 meters per second). You can multiply the meters per second by 3.6 if you prefer it in kilometers/hour.
(2) Be sufficiently far from Earth, to avoid air resistance. A height somewhere between 100 and 200 kilometers is required, for a relatively stable orbit.
Comment: I think "in a circular orbit" is what the question is looking for as the answer.
What should be on a poster about Mae Jemison?
The Endeavour space shuttle and her picture. And about her trip in space. There should also be intresting facts
Which space shuttle did Sally Ride die on?
Sally Ride wouldn't appreciate your question- she's still alive. If you are asking about Judy Resnick or Christa McAuliffe, they both were killed in the Challenger tragedy in 1986.
As far as I know, from our perspective of space, there is no known limits, though there are limits to our perspective. You see, it would take generations of our species to reach the nearest solar system to our own, and there are billions on billions of solar systems within our own galaxy, plus there are an unknown number of galaxies. ++++Lamino++++ This is my take: Nothing suggests the existace of any ultimate limit but remember the absence of evidence is not an evidence for absency.From our point of view the universe has only one apparent limit that we come across which is visibility and is highly attributed to light travelled time, this means that the limit only exists in time.Using the same arguerment one could ask : isn't space also limited in time? the most noble answer would be to say I don't know but given the fact that the universe is expanding, I certainly think there should be a limit but not physical but in time meaning that space should go forever.Forever? think again, as for now it might seem as if we will cruise forever but gravity remains a threat so as to say as years progress gravity might be strong enough or the univrse's accerleration be weak enough to counter-acted by gravity.
2. We thinks that space have no limitation but we don't see through eye of ant if we are in the size of an ant we thinks that all the universe are land there is noting only the land. but we know there is not only land there is space water etc. so we also don't know the limitation of space. we cant say that space is ultimate it had no limits this is truly wrong to say that.
Why doesn't a rocket in space need to use its engine to keep moving?
In space there is no air resistance, so no force slowing the rocket down. Once in orbit round the earth it will continue indefinitely without using its engine. It would go in a straight line but the earth's gravity makes it stay in orbit. If it is further accelerated out of orbit by the rocket motor it will start to leave earth but eventually come to a point where the gravity from another body such as the moon is stronger and then it will accelerate towards that body, again without needing to use the motor. The motor is only needed to change speed, not to continue at the same speed, or to simply react to gravity forces.
How much does the average unmanned spacecraft mission cost?
Discovery class interplanetary missions run about $300 million. Big spy sat missions go for $1 billion or more.
Why did they turn the external tank on the space shuttle orange and not leave it white?
Actually, it is originally orange from the insulation they use, but they used to paint it white. They stopped painting them white to save weight on paint, I think like 600 pds or so.
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How would a spaceship fall out of the sky?
A spaceship can 'fall' from the sky if it loses power , fails to maintain orbital velocity , loss of ship's controls and/or the ship is caught by the gravitational field of the planet , etc . . .
What is the final stage of the space program to reach the moon called?
Perhaps Apollo? That was the project that finally succeeded in landing men on the moon (with the Apollo 11 mission).
How is 'thrust' possible in outer space?
Its called Newton's Third Law. "When object A exerts a force on object B , then object B will exert an equal but opposite force back on A". When a rocket spews out hot gasses it's effectively exerting a force on the gasses. So the gasses exert the same force back on the rocket. The gasses accelerate one way and the rocket accelerates the other way. When Goddard first started experimenting with rockets some newspapers laughed at him because they thought the rocket would not be able to keep going once it got too far from the earth. But Goddard undestood Neton's Third law and knew the earth didn't have to be there for it to work.
Doctor Mae Jemison was a Mission Specialist on STS-47 in 1992.
Why is there no weather in space?
Weather requires an atmosphere to occur, as it involves the interaction of air masses with different temperatures and pressures. Space is a vacuum, devoid of any atmosphere, which is why there is no weather in space. Temperature variations and other phenomena in space are driven by other mechanisms, such as solar radiation.
As near as we can tell, space has no "end" in the conventional sense. This is similar to asking the question "What does the edge of the Earth look like?" The Earth is a sphere, and has no "edge" so you can walk around it forever and never find one.
Consider the Earth. When standing on the Earth it seems flat and two dimensional, but if you point yourself in one direction and keep walking you will always end up back where you started. This is because the surface of the Earth is curved in to a sphere, a third dimension.
Similarly, consider space. It appears to be three dimensional. But space is curved, it appears, in to a fourth dimension!This means that if you hopped in to a space ship, pointed it in to space, and kept going (for a very long time) you would eventually end up back here on Earth!
This is why we say that space has no "end" to it.
Why does the space shuttle need tiles?
The tiles on the space shuttle form a heat shield. The shuttle enters the Earth's atmosphere at high speed, which creates very high temperatures that would burn up the vehicle if it was not protected.
The renaissance contributed to the exploration of America by?
All of the above..... if you're taking PLATO!!
How many mpg does a space shuttle get?
on an eight day mission, an average of 6.
on a thirty day mission,10.
Did Mae Jemison have any brothers or sisters?
Yes. She has a sister named Ada Jemison Bullock and a brother named Charles Jemison.
What is BUZZ' Aldrin's real first name?
His first name was Edwin and according to the official NASA site his full name was Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and he went on Apollo 11 with Neil Armstrong. All of this information i got off of www.NASA.gov and it a very helpful site
