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Research performed in space involves all areas of scientific and technical inquiry. Those areas range from astronomy—like, how does a black hole form?—to zeolites—how do we create better chemical reaction catalysts? As many missions are planned to answer questions that affect our daily lives here on Earth as are planned to answer questions about the rest of the Universe. ---- ...

Eventually there will be millions of people living in space, on the Moon and on Mars. In 50 years there may be enough people and biospheres (farms) that if something happened to the people of Earth the human species would survive. Our space people might come back to Earth to start Earth settlements. ---- Answer provided by John Spencer Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer ...

Yes. As our explorations carry us further out into space, we are likely to find many different types of life. Scientists believe that life could exist in various forms. These new life forms will likely be different from anything we have ever seen before. ---- Answer provided by Robby Gaines Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by ...

... molecules for specific uses. This may, for instance, be to improve plant yields and enhanced animal products through genetic alteration. Recombinant techniques, for example, make it possible to produce natural or ... from pulse rate, electrocardiogram and blood pressure records, remained within normal limits throughout the flight. Animals trained in the laboratory to perform various tasks during the simulated acceleration, noise, and vibration ...

... featuring heart-tugging robots loyally tending the last remaining “world heritage” stock of plants and animals sent to space from an Earth rapidly approaching terminal over-pollution from human arrogance and ... cyberpunk movies also seems to be over. Some contemporary Japanese science fiction, especially in its ''anime '' and ''manga '' forms, is heavily cyber-punkish. Its origins lie in Japanese ''ukiyo-e '' woodblock ...

... controlled functions performed "beautifully" after launch and spacecraft and instrumentation performed well throughout mission. "The animal was reported to be enthusiastically eating and drinking, and after four or five days, a ... spite of the reduced duration of the experiment" and indicated "great value of carefully designed animal experiments in collection of important biomedical data relevant to manned flight." Virtually every piece of ...

... cage that's too turbulent to contain the waste." The problems with the animals cast some doubt over future animal flights on Spacelab , the Washington Post continued. NASA had scheduled for 1986 ... rats and four squirrel monkeys. However, Spacelab mission manager Joseph Cremin insisted that research on animals was crucial to the future of the permanent space station where men and women would ...

... on official Pinterest and GIPHY accounts, providing visitors an out-of-this-world journey through animated GIFs and images of Earth and beyond. On Pinterest, NASA is posting new and historic ... creations on their own social media accounts, and can be used to create or share animated GIFs to communicate a reaction, offer a visual explanation, or even create digital works of ... ; the latest discoveries made by the Mars Curiosity rover; the impact of climate change on animal populations around the world; and new results from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft orbiting the dwarf ...

... History, proposed in Natural History magazine that scientific satellites be used in tracking animal migrations. Dr. Warner proposed animals be tagged with transistor radios and batteries weighing 1/2 to 2 oz ... and correlate them with other data from satellites. Transistors had been successfully tested with small animals and large birds, but tracking by ground stations was hindered by horizon line; satellite with ...

... organizations shared in the mission. The U.S. experimenters found changes in enzymes and in animal bone strength, growth rate, and mineral content, like the changes experienced by astronauts and cosmonauts ... to normal. Under normal conditions, the total amount of bone in an adult human or animal remains constant, with bone continually resorbed and replaced by newly formed bone. In spaceflight, production ...

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