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... and work on the Moon. In the near future it will be for short periods, but we'll be constantly building and expanding, and eventually we will have people who live on the Moon from birth to death. ---- Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to ...

... be a dull desk in a windowless underground room. No wood paneling either, though, as it would be too expensive and too low a priority to ship to the Moon in the near future. ---- Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space ...

... VOYAGES TO THE MOON''' by Nicholson, M. ''New York, 1948: Macmillan Co., 297 pages, $1.75 (1960 edition)'' This is a literary and historical book on the evolution of fictional ideas on how man could travel to the Moon. It includes accounts of schemes developed by Cicero, Lucian, Plutarch, Milton, and others. Reprinted in 1960. Extracted from the 1962 ...

... WAR FOR THE MOON''' by Caidin, M. ''New York, 1959: E. P. Dutton Co., Inc., 285 pages, $4.95'' The nature of the Moon, lunar probing, details of US and Soviet lunar probe vehicles, future exploration attempts, etc., are treated. Paintings are by F. Wolff. Extracted from the 1962 Publication ''Annotated ...

One of the goals of living in a lunar colony would be to set up a working community. So yes, there would ... a branch of the International Space University on the Moon. You would have the opportunity to get "up close and personal" with data needed for a lunar research project right from the Moon and then be able to send it back to Earth Research and development would be very important at the university level. Can you imagine the discoveries and inventions ...

... speed on the Moon's rough surface to jump off a ramp, you would travel quite a distance before the gravity pulled you back down. Watch out for the landing though—Moon vehicles wouldn't have rubber tires, so you wouldn't bounce when you hit the surface. Drag racing in space ... by US Space and Rocket Center Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This ...

... on the Moon would be much like it is here on Earth except the ball would travel much farther when thrown. If you were to play outside, you would have to be in spacesuits, which would make running, catching and throwing more difficult. Even though there is less gravity on the Moon, you wouldn't be able to throw the ball hard enough to get it in orbit, let alone to another galaxy. ---- Answer provided by US Space and Rocket Center Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the ...

The 24 Apollo astronauts who circled the Moon in the period from 1968 to 1972 went the greatest distance from Earth—about 240,000 miles. Some astronauts have traveled further in space since then, but only by going around and around the Earth in low Earth orbit (LEO) in a space station for several months at a time. The next big journey, after the return to the Moon ...

... difficult to build. This shield could not be large enough to encompass a planet or the Moon but possibly could be large enough to contain a small community. ---- Answer provided by Lonnie Moffitt & Russell Romanella Image:K2S logosmall.jpg Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer Image:9781894959421.jpg '''Buy This ...

... thought of in a different context—let's say we consider the vacuum of space, the hot and cold temperatures, lack of seismic activity on the Moon, or the difference in gravity as resources. The temperatures are generally 260° F to -280° F; however, it can get as low as -382° F in craters, and ...

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