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... EXPLORATION OF THE MOON''' by Clarke, A. C. ''New York, 1954: Harper and Brothers, 112 pages, $2.50'' Largely pictorial (paintings by R. Smith), the book is concerned with many aspects of lunar flight, colonization, and exploitation. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History ...

... TOMORROW THE MOON''' by Marcus, A. and R. B. Marcus ''Englewood Cliffs (New Jersey), 1959: Prentice-Hall, Inc., ... ;sumé of history and development of rocketry and astronautics for lay readers. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History ...

Twelve astronauts have stepped onto the Moon's surface. ---- Answer provided by Col. USAF (Ret.) Rick Searfoss Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie ...

Once you're in space it depends how fast the spaceship can travel and the route it takes. The Apollo astronauts took about two days to get to the Moon—that is, 48 hours, and three days, or 72 hours, to get back. ---- Answer provided by Hazel McAndrews Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book ...

Once you're in space it depends how fast the spaceship can travel. The Apollo astronauts took about two days to get to the Moon. ---- Answer provided by Hazel McAndrews Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids ...

... this is only suitable for ferrying astronauts and equipment to the Space Station and back again. Between an orbiting hotel and the Moon, which is about 236,000 miles from Earth, it would take a matter of days using a standard liquid propellant fuel. Between planets distances are much greater—for instance the ... are on average about 62 million miles apart. This is a small distance in terms of the scale of the solar system It would take a spacecraft about nine months to get to ...

... an orbiting hotel by about 2015, and maybe earlier. Astronauts will be going back to the Moon around 2020 or before, and tourists will follow maybe five years later. Mars vacations will ... up. ---- 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 ...

The Moon will always be easier and quicker to visit. A round trip would be just over ... will be over a year, with our current kinds of rocket engines. In the future, it will depend on how the space tourist companies do their brochures. Maybe you will help to write ... say? ---- 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 ...

In round figures, it is 240,000 miles, and took the Apollo astronauts three days to get from the Earth to the Moon. ---- Answer provided by Derek Webber Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to ...

... the speed that needs to be achieved to escape the gravitational pull. For the Earth, this speed is approximately 25,000 miles per hour (mph). For the Moon, it is about 5,300 mph. On the asteroid Ceres, the largest known asteroid in the solar ...

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