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... Moon. This is a term often used to refer to the far side of the Moon. The far side is always pointed away from the Earth because of the rotation period of the Moon matching that of Earth's. However it receives as much sunshine as the side of the Moon facing the Earth. ---- Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J ...

When the Sun is shining on it, the far side of the Moon may even be a bit brighter, as it has much less of ...

The health risks fall into four groups: 1) medical problems that normally occur on Earth could occur in space, like appendicitis; 2) accidents could cause trauma—for example, although a person could not "fall" in space, they could get hurt by being hit by an object floating through the spacecraft, like a book or a piece of equipment; 3) changes in human physiology due to living in micro- ...

Astronauts can communicate with one another no matter where they are in the ISS using voice loops and headsets. That is also the way they communicate with the ground controllers back on Earth. ---- Answer provided by Lonnie Moffitt & Cdr. USN Robert L. Curbeam Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

It is roughly 7,000 million miles across near Pluto, and we think there are planets even further out from the Sun. ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks.com/Books/For%20Kids/KidstoSpace.html ...

No, the Moon is like Earth and people will be able to live everywhere because gravity will hold them to the surface. ---- Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book''' http://www.apogeebooks. ...

... earth's upper atmosphere. Thirty-six sounding rockets- Nike-Iroquois , Black Brant , Nike-Javelin , Side-winder-Arcas , and Arcas -were launched from Churchill Research Range to 37.3- to 124.3-mi (60- to ...

... atmosphere.” VENUS II had failed to transmit photos or televise the planet’s sunlit side as programmed because of a breakdown in its communications system: “The last radio communications ... for Space Research project would launch seven Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC -instrumented Boosted Arcas rockets from USNS Range Recoverer stationed several miles off-shore from Koroni in southern ...

... of earth's; S-band occultation estimated carbon dioxide and found ionospheric observations on daytime side indicated electron density; dual-frequency radio propagation provided data on Venus mass as 81. ... schedule delay caused loss of coordination with MARINER V experiment. ''(NASA Rpt SRL)'' NASA Arcas sounding rocket was launched from Barking Sands, Hawaii, to 36-mi (58-km) altitude, ...

... . Meteorological sounding rockets included 46 Nike-Cajun s and more than 200 boosted Dart and Arcas rockets. About 60 high-altitude balloons-including one carrying Stratoscope II optical telescope-were launched ... at 128 events covering all 50 states, with total attendance of some 12 million. Out side U.S., samples were shown to almost 30 million persons in 110 countries, including almost ...

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