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Training will not be strenuous or difficult or make you nauseous. If moving simulators make you nauseous, or if flying on the zero-gravity plane makes you nauseous, and those are things you do for your training program, you can always take a special medication that prevents motion sickness before the training begins. ---- Answer provided by Tim Bailey & Loretta Hidalgo Image:K2S ...

Any trip to space will definitely include your pre-flight training. Today it costs thousands of dollars to prepare a passenger for a spaceflight. In the future, it will be a few hundred dollars at the most. ---- Answer provided by Tim Bailey & Loretta Hidalgo Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

Training will be fun After all, you are getting ready for the most exciting experience ever: a trip to space ---- Answer provided by Tim Bailey & Loretta Hidalgo 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% ...

Take a lot of pictures because you may only have one chance to capture just the right shot Also remember to bring plenty of memory cards, batteries and an assortment of lenses. ---- Answer provided by Barbara Morgan Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This Book ...

Flying in space is dangerous, and always will be. It's an unforgiving environment. Currently we have lost one orbiter and its crew every 65 launches or so. I was excited, but didn't worry, you never expect it to happen to you. ---- Answer provided by Lt. Col. USAF (Ret.) William G. Gregory Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie ...

The short answer is yes. Astronauts try to get all the training they can to learn to fly the Shuttle and to operate its systems and experiments. Simulators are very popular because of their fidelity and realism and ability to simulate failures. Also, astronauts participate in many tests to learn more and more. You can almost say one can't get too much training, but astronauts are typically very ...

Nuclear energy is the only energy source known that can provide the required specific energy, and nuclear fusion may be the only method that can provide the required specific power. However, controlled nuclear fusion that produces more energy than is required to keep it running has never been achieved in the laboratory. A Department of Energy goal is to develop fusion technology to produce power ...

There are no rules for space traffic yet but there will be. And these rules will most likely be created by an international group that represents the space-traveling nations, just as we have done for international airplane travel. ---- Answer provided by Ron Kohl Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

This may be possible but it is more likely that there will be a network of distant satellites or other unmanned spacecraft that will be sent deep into the solar system to monitor approaching meteors and asteroids. If any such object is detected, a message would be sent to many different Earth stations at the same time. ---- Answer provided by Ron Kohl Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question ...

Earth orbit is neat because you can look down and see the whole world below, just like on a map, but without the lines on the map that show country boundaries. Going to the Moon will be fun because you will be able to move around feeling as light as a feather, and look back and see the Earth in the sky. Mars has some atmosphere, and so the sky there does not look black, like it does on the Moon. ...

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