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I'm not quite sure whether the question is correctly answered here or whether it belongs to Law Stack Exchange.
Assuming I can fly into space, more precisely to the moon and back again.
What laws ...
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Some early observation satellites took pictures on photographic film and the film was dropped towards Earth and picked up by airplanes (e.g. Corona). What was the last satellite to use photographic ...
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Seven astronauts (the Mercury Seven) were selected to fly during the Mercury program. Yet Slayton, one of the Mercury Seven didn't fly during Mercury (though he did fly for Apollo-Soyuz). Why were ...
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On earth, blankets serve to primarily buffer temperature changes / heat transfer that would occur via convection (e.g. a blanket traps air near you so that after your body warms it, it doesn't just ...
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The Dragon nose has a fairly elaborate hinge. I've read it's actuated by a hydraulic cylinder. Is that what I see in the picture below by the green line? Is it perpendicular to the longitudinal axis ...
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The Dragon has a structural dome shaped like a truncated cone (A below) on a stubby cylinder (B).
Q: Is the crew section entirely in the truncated cone, or is it split in two stories with the second ...
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I wonder whether the Moon and the Jovian moons spin fast enough for a Foucault pendulum to swing on their poles. For instance, I think that it wouldn't swing on Mercury and Venus because these planets ...
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I was watching space shuttle launch recently, and at 2:53 you can see the space shuttle from an angle, even though it's high above the earth and you should see only the bottom.
Did the space shuttle ...
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Why is the US developing a new rocket and spacecraft as opposed to building the Saturn V and Apollo stacks again?
The SLS / Orion development programs certainly can't cost less than the unit cost of ...
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We often say that the planets orbit the Sun, which is usually a reasonable approximation. But in reality both Sun and the planets orbit the center-of-mass/center-of-gravity of the whole solar system, ...
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As follows from the mission timeline:
Launch - August 5, 2011
Deep Space Maneuvers - August/September 2012
Earth flyby gravity assist - October 2013
Jupiter arrival - July 2016
Spacecraft will orbit ...
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On Wikipedia page on Moon landing, Neil Armstrong is shown stepping down on the surface of the Moon using the spaceship's ladder:
Still frame from a video transmission, taken moments before ...
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Presumably, the booster would be a very light, very tall tube (Most of the fuel spent) standing on 4 fairly small legs on a ship in the middle of the ocean. It would also still contain some LOX and ...
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How much protection do space EVA suits offer against radiation? Do they shield certain kinds of radiation more than others? Any idea how many sieverts an individual is exposed to wearing a space ...
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Can you answer these questions?
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The following graphs are related to the Voyager 2 / Jupiter flyby occurred on July 1979 (I did the calculation with the SPICE library and NAIF’s data files).
We see that the maximum speed relative to ...
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Clearly, an astronaut’s diet varies from day to day to ensure proper health while in space. And depending on the astronaut’s place of origin, preferences, and availability, their choice of foods ...
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According to spacex, the falcon 9 landing legs are made of carbon fiber with aluminum in a honeycomb shape. How much force would be needed to break that?
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