Astronauts
This category is for questions related to the personal requirements of Astronautical missions. The training, living accommodations, and working conditions both on the Earth and in space are discussed here. For further information on a particular astronaut, please see the name in question.
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Click on the links to your right for some great shots from the first moon landing by Apollo 11. You can also go to this NASA...
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of course in my way ,.im looking their pictures in the museum Too be honest museums aren't the only way too find pictures of...
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Names of All AstronautsClick on the related link below for all the names of astronauts. There have been a few hundred astronauts...
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Yes On August 5, 2011 he turned 81
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No, never. Its not allowed.
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An Orbital space flight simply means that you have accelerated a space craft fast enough so it stays in orbit (cicular path)...
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A number of astronauts have died after returning from space. However, I believe you're asking if they have died AS A RESULT OF...
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Mae C. Jemison - Physician and astronaut Born: 10/17/1956 Birthplace: Decatur, Ala. Astronaut Mae Jemison became the first...
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Yes, all of them. They just all happen to be buried on the third rock orbiting the sun.AKA the earth
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That would be Paul Scully Power, who flew on the STS-41 mission in 1984.
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Roberta Bondar is probably most known as Canada's first female astronaut and the first neurologist in space. Following more than...
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They eat dehydrated/freeze-dried food, which is food with all of the water removed from it.
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They take the water with them. they will have to reuse it a well.
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In a Volleyball team, there is 12 players. 6 players go in the court while the other six sit at the bench ready to be a...
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As there is no gravity in space, everything will float........... Because They're in free fall ... .....
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Yes, that is a lot of people.Lol, wut?
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Spacesuits provide oxygen and temperature regulation. Contrary to popular belief, you will not explode in the vacuum of the...
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After the launch of STS-127 (Space Shuttle Endeavour) to the ISS, there will have been 500 people who have flown to space. (The...
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the food is freeze dried at extreme temperatures and then sealed into a special foil packet NASA or other space agencies then...
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Yes, but he wasn't interested or eligible to apply for the astronaut program. He wasn't eligible due to not having a college...
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No,they might take off their space suits in the rocket, if you watch apolio 13 then you'll understand
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, were the first two astronauts to walk on the moon.
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A working spacesuit.enough oxegen.food and fluids.
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They send them there so they can become awesome and well known.(:and they love it but no one has actually gone up to space its a...
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to decorate the shuttle lol
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Yes astronaut john young is still alive, but he has retired.
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She felt happy for the services she has given to the world.
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their spaceship could explode while takeoff
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The nickname of Edwin Aldrin was buzz . It was given by his sister who could not pronounce brother, she always said Buzzer.
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That is not so difficult the space suit is very shiny because the sun at it is so big you have reflected in your suit the sun...
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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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Because there's no tap water in space. Whatever they want they have to bring with them the ability to recycle body waste reduces...
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Rock-et roll!!!!! Ha Ha ha. Honestly, I don't know. Each one must be different. After all, they're just ordinary people.
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Neil Armstrong
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Andy Thomas has far more than two achievements to his name. See the web link to the left for a summary of what he has achieved so...
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Salaries for civilian Astronaut Candidates are based on the Federal Government's General Schedule pay scale for grades GS-12...
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astro-suits.
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Alessandro Volta Albert Einstein Archimedes Blaise Pascal George Boole CR Rao Pythagoras Rene Descartes SN Bose Sophie...
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Jim Lovell was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
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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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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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without the pull of gravity the bones separate slightly, the growth is only a few millimeters to a centimetre or two.
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when they were taking off from earth to go to space one tile of rocket get off and when they were coming it takes more force and...
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it has scuba tanks of oxigen.
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NASA, http://www.edspace.nasa.gov
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You get aching muscules when coming back to Earth. You experience the outer world. Those ate the disadvantages and advantages.
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6 manned landings on the Moon Apollo's 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. 9 manned missions to the moon...
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i dont know.. it has to be either Sunita or Kalpana..~! i think it is Sunita!!!
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Yes, but they do not "feel" gravity, because they are falling - "free fall" in orbit around the Earth.
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Guin Bluford was the first black astronaut in space.
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because they want to see what's up in space and sometimes they have to because that is there mission
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He always wanted to be a pilot, so he joint up and was selected as a pilot in the U.S. Navy, and took action in the Korean war....
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You need to have a bachelors degree in engineering, science or mathmatics & the degree needs to be from an accredited college...
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Kalpana Chawla died in the Columbia shuttle disaster on February 1, 2003. Her remains were recovered, cremated, and scattered...
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It takes many many years to become an astronaut, many training as well. They will not put you in space right away. It also...
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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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Each of the Gemini missions had a crew of two astronauts.
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NASA's seven original astronauts were: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Virgil Grissom, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard,...
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They brought back moon rocks from the moon.
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because of unavailability of gravity.
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John Glenn, a decorated US Marine Corps pilot, flew the first US orbital mission, completing three orbits of the Earth in his...
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The second American in space was Virgil (Gus) Grissom, who was killed during a fire in the Command Module of Apollo 1 as it sat...
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No, the missions were all fatality free.
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Because you couldn't be a proctologist, you'd be an astronaut. ASteroids come out of the HEMisphere and HEMorrhoids come out of...
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no gravitational force act on the astronaut
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1. Aliens 2. Asteroids3. No Oxygen4. No Fuel5. No Food
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An astronaut is a person who travels in Space. Until 03 an astronaut was usually trained by the military, government or civil...
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John Glenn is 90 years old (birthdate: July 18, 1921).
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The Space Shuttle has a toilet that can be used by both men and women. It is designed to be as much as possible like those on...
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This has been a very interesting point in determining who the first person was in space. The people who govern these types of...
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John Glenn orbited the earth just 3 times in his Mercury capsule 'Friendship 7' in 1962. The first-ever US orbital flight lasted...
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The astronauts spacesuits are a type of life support system to keep them alive when outside of the spacecraft. Then it supplies...
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The Astronaut that lost his space capsule was Gus Grissom. His capsule was the Liberty Bell 7, Part of NASA's Mercury project.
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Officially 100 km. At one time the US limit was 50 miles, and the European limit was 62.1 miles (100 km). NASA seem to have come...
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Space stations and space shuttles are specially designed to be easy to keep clean.
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There is sufficient evidence to prove that astronauts DID land on the moon. The six missions that landed between 1969 and 1972...
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Roberta Bondar, Marc Garneau, Steve MacLean, Ken Money, Robert Thirsk, Bjarni Tryggvason.
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The only way to contact an astronaut is through this address: Astronaut Office/CB NASA Johnson Space Center Houston, TX...
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See the Web Links below for a selection of information.
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The "space race" was a competition between USSR and The United States to get objects and people into space orbit, and eventually...
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The numbers refer to which Gemini mission they were part of. Gus Grissom - 3 John Young - 3 and 10 Jim McDivitt - 4 Ed White...
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Space suits can be punctured by pieces of space junk, as even the shuttle itself has been damaged slightly. Tiny flecks of paint...
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The spacecraft that astronauts go up in, have their own life support systems which regulate conditions to keep the spacecraft...
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John H. Glenn, Jr. John Herschel Glenn Jr. (born July 18, 1921) became the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth, the third US...
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They were known as cosmonauts.
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Senator Jake Garn was the first sitting member of the US congress to go into space.
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The last time a human has landed on the moon was in 1971. Since no NASA astronauts have landed on anything from that day on,...
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bad food, lonely, no gravity, no bathroom, no fresh air, cramped, cold
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NASA gives his contact details as the following... Written requests for information or appearances can be submitted via fax to...
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On Earth, except while sleeping, human beings are always moving against the force of gravity, with their muscles and bones...
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