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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the...
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1. Its made of gas, you'll just fall into the planet
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The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a space telescope that was carried into orbit by a Space Shuttle in 1990 and remains in...
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Facts about the planet Neptune : - It is the 4th largest planet in the solar system. It is the 3rd most massive because it is...
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New Answer (Clearer)Depends what you mean by "rockets".The term "rocket" can be applied to fireworks, missiles, engines and space...
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Sports and I think doctors.
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NoRainbows are caused by sunlight glinting off tiny water particles in the sky, bouncing the light back towards the observer. In...
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They have a hole open towards the genitals. Thus, allowing them to stick the penis through and they'll be able to breathe.
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Ronald McDonald Invented Restaurants Verizon Uses X-rays Great!Another one is Girls with Xylophones Unrelated to Violins Runaway...
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Tools such as satellites, space shuttles, and telescopes are used to explore space. Satellites take photos of certain objects in...
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ORIGINS No one person ever "invents" or builds a spacecraft; it is a collaboration of individuals, companies, governments, etc.,...
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Yuri Gagarin of the USSR became the first human to enter space on 12 April 1961. He was later to die in an aircraft crash while...
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Space probes can look different but many have a sphere for a center with two or three arms that sort of resemble wings. You can...
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Yes. The apparent colour of a star is related to the peak wavelength of the light it emits. According to Wien's displacement law...
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It is used to measure the heights of buildings on an aerial photograph.
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Compared to what ? If you're hanging in space above the north pole andlooking down, you see the Earth revolving counterclockwise....
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Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to orbit the earth in a space vehicle. He returned from his mission on April 12, 1961. ...
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250000 pansy seeds
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The visibility of constellations changes over the year, although specific constellations are visible at the same time every year....
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The short answer is yes, although I think only adults have been to space thus far, and most adult bodies have stopped growing in...
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The distance varies somewhat, during the course of a month and also during the course of a year. It averages out to about 93...
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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...
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The first animals to cross the Karman line at an altitude of 100 km did so in a V2 rocket.
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It takes about 8 minutes from launch for the shuttle to reach space. How is that for speed? Once in space, the space shuttle and...
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Donations, government partly, various companies sponsoring them, etc. For example, it looks good on companies to have their name...
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Sputnik - first satellite, 1957 Yuri Gagarin - first man to orbit the earth, 1961 Use any decent search engine (Google, Ask,...
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When they're inside their spacecraft, in the "shirtsleeve" environment, and the spacecraft is full of air, they don't need...
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The moon's average distance from the sun is the same as the earth's average distance from the sun. When you think about it ......
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Around 50 degrees below zero.
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The Apollo 11 astronauts were launched July 16th 1969 at 08:32:00 am EST from Kennedy Space Centre. They reached the Moon when...
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Most people study space using telescopes, small and large, but you can also either send a space shuttle, manned or unmanned, up...
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First there are the dangers of launch. Rockets like Soyuz have flown for many years without any accidents and everything is...
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An orbiting spacecraft or space station continues in orbit because its forward momentum carries it around the planet even as...
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Nobody but crackpots recognize the existence of Nibiru. It doesn't exist. (I'm assuming you're talking about the non-existent...
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The world's largest rocket was the Saturn V vehicle built by the United States. While design of the rocket, and it's smaller...
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Duct Tape in Space Whoever told you this is wrong. Duct tape is useful everywhere....
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A ballistic missile is a term that defines a missile's flight path. There are two types of flight paths as far as missiles are...
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Anytime you want speed.when is "friction" not usefull
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Albert C. Antoine (born 1925) was a chemist, and a NASA aerospace engineer.
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This is not a joke............. It is because the sun is larger.
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An artificial satillite orbits another object while a space probe travels farther into the solar system
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For better traction.
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As far as we know, there is no matter that is truly invisible. Some objects can be extremely hard to see, however, because they...
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An AU is an Astronomical Unit. 1 AU is 92 955 887.6 miles. = 149 598 000 kilometers It is the mean distance between the...
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World's First ballistic missile used by Germany. From a practical military standpoint, it was of low usefulness (and generally...
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Probably the first device that could be called a "space lander" was the Lunar Excursion Module (referred to as the "LEM") which...
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It will probably evolve over time, but so far ships are navigated in space by a combination of celestial navigation (orientation...
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The critical part of a liquid-fueld rocket that provides it with its ability to "fly" is the combustion chamber, sometimes, but...
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The only correct way to try and contact any astronaut is to write to the following address: Astronaut Office/CB NASA Johnson...
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None. Several women have been in space but none have gone to the moon yet. To date, there have been 12 male, but no female...
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The sun is not a red giant. It is a yellow dwarf star
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No humidity to discharge it.
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Rockets with today's technology will burn a fuel. That means that chemical energy is converted into heat; when the gases of the...
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When the human body is suddenly exposed to the vacuum of space, a number of injuries begin to occur immediately. Though they are...
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Advantages LOLIPOPS UL FIND THE CHEESe in the moon craters - general prestige for countries like China, Japan and India -...
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because they no need food cloth and shelter .They easily live on the space without air or any other problem. Because robots...
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Helen Patricia Sharman OBE (born May 30, 1963), is a chemist and former British astronaut. She was the first Briton in space, on...
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Unless they are especially valuable or designed to be returned, they aren't "brought back". They simply fall back as their orbit...
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One of the main reasons why there is a push to construct a base on the moon is because telescopic observations from the moon...
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Python is a scripting language. Which you can use to make games, gui apps, text based apps or anything you want. Python comes...
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The first lunar landing was by the unmanned Russian Luna 2 on September 13 1959. Though the vehicle impacted, it was not a...
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The Moon, on average, is about 150 million kilometers away from the Sun. That's actually an interesting coincidence, since the...
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Well i know that spaceships have certain tiles on the outside to keep the heat out and protect the astronauts, but also you could...
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Laika , a Russian dog , was launched into space aboard the Sputnik 2 November 3, 1957 . Laika did not survive the ordeal ~ See...
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A U.S. President has never been to space, but a U.S. Senator, John Glenn, has.
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Global Positioning System: The mankind depends on the sea trade for transportation of food grains, fossil fuels, metal ores, etc....
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AnswerIn zero gravity = no. Not unless you're on an artificial surface like a space shuttle with some sort of magnetic boots,...
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There are two rovers currently active on the planet Mars. Spirit which which is exploring the Gusev Crater and Opportunity which...
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A frac tank is used to hold water, or a proppant, when a well is being fractured. The material is held in a frac tank and...
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That would depend on the intensity of the incoming solar radiation ... essentially the planet's distance from the sun ... as...
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I already have. The space program wasn't getting anywhere as long as it dependedon me for its funding. I was truly gratified,...
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All of the 12 people who have landed and walked on the moon have beenmale citizens of the USA. No country has ever yet left the...
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the revolution began in the mid 1500's
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You will travel in the same direction, at the same speed for eternity unless your vehicle is acted upon by some other force such...
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Earth The moon Robots built by humans have landed on Mars, Venus, and Saturn's moon - Titan Probes have been sent to all planets...
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Wing Commander Rakesh Sharma (retd) (born January 13, 1949 in Patiala, Punjab, India) was the first Indian and 138th man to visit...
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The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch on January 28, 1986. The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon...
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The "lifespan" of an airliner is not truly measured in time, but pressurization cycles. Each time the aircraft is pressurized...
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July, 1969
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There are several types of electric propulsion. None of these are useful for primary propulsion (getting off the ground and...
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Skylab fell back to Earth on 11 July 1979 and while most of it fell into the sea, quite a bit of the debris rained down on the...
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Its 100 km or 62.1 miles straight up from sea level.
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If u give a shout out some one might find u that u do not want them too
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Roberta Bondar flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1992.
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The Hubble telescope is just like a land telescope but it is a lot bigger and the most advanced one we had. The zoom is also a...
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The first rocket which could fly high enough to claim the title "first space rocket" was invented by German scientists Werner Von...
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There are many website through which you can learn about rockects eg:Wikipedia,google etc.
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The first unmanned craft to reach the moon was the Russian Luna 2 on September 15 1959. This neither orbited or soft-landed, but...
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There are literally thousands of man made objects in space, such as parts of old space rockets sent up by Russia, China, Europe...
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It's hard to imagine, but the temperature on Mercury is 427 degrees Celsius in the day and -180 degrees at night! Without a...
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The Space Tourists so far are: Dennis Tito (M) - American. April 28th 2001 Mark Shuttleworth (M) - South African/British. 25th...
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