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However, the missions of these spacecraft last a short time, on the order of days to two weeks. In contrast, the International Space Station (ISS) was designed for long-term spaceflight and has been in orbit since 1998. So how is oxygen made aboard the ISS? It's handled in one of ...
And since 1998, the United States, Russia, the European Space Agency, Canada, Japan and other countries have been building and operating the International Space Station (ISS) in Earth orbit. With the ISS, humans have been living and working in outer space for more than 10 years. In this ...
On his fourth trip to orbit, NASA astronaut Don Pettit has been sharing some wonderful imagery captured from the International Space Station (ISS) since his arrival there in September. His latest effort shows distant stars, city lights on Earth some 250 miles below, and what he describes as ...
Spacecraft in orbit around planets, however, need to be carefully disposed of. When theCassini mission to Saturn came to an end, it was dramatically plunged into the planet’s atmosphere, or deorbited, so that it would deliberately break up and be destroyed. That ensured there was no chanc...
1.You can get a general idea on how good your telescope optics are by doing a star test. I would suggest getting the book,Star Testing Astronomical Telescopes: A Manual for Optical Evaluation and Adjustmentby Harold Suiter. 2."Freaky sharp" compared to what? What does that even mean? Ther...
On theInternational Space Station, ISS, the undocking typically takes place during the final (14th or 15th) orbit of a particular day, around 3.5 hours before a scheduled touchdown on Earth. After opening the hooks of thedocking mechanism, spring pushers in the docking port give the spacecraft...
The radiation belt is still a big donut. Actually 3 donuts with different holes. There is perfect trajectory over the 3 big donuts towards the moon that could have been taken if the belts were that dangerous. It is called a polar orbit, you fly through the donut holes skipping the radiati...
For instance, NASA’s Crew development programme supports Boeing’s Crew Space Transportation 100 craft, which aims to shuttle astronauts to, and from low-Earth orbit either to the ISS or other space stations such as Bigelow Aerospace’s inflatable structure, proposed for orbit in 2015. If ...