wht is Fallen astronaut??
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Fallen Astronaut is an 8.5-cm aluminum sculpture of an astronaut in a spacesuit. It is the only piece of art on the Moon.\n\nIt was created by Belgian artist Paul Van Hoeydonck, who met astronaut David Scott at a dinner party. Van Hoeydonck was asked to create a small statuette to personally commemorate those astronauts and cosmonauts having lost their lives in the furtherance of space exploration. Van Hoeydonck was given a set of design restrictions: in addition to the physical requirements that the sculpture be both lightweight and sturdy, and that it be capable of withstanding the temperature extremes of the Moon, the statuette could not be identifiably male or female, nor of any identifiable ethnic group. Furthermore, in accordance with Scott's wish to avoid the commercialization of space, Van Hoeydonck's name would not be made public.\n\nIn 1971, Fallen Astronaut was placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15, along with a plaque bearing the names of fourteen American astronauts and Russian cosmonauts who died during spaceflights or training exercises.\n\nAfter the crew mentioned the statuette during their post-flight press conference, the National Air and Space Museum requested that a replica be made for public display. The crew agreed, under the condition that it was to be displayed "with good taste and without publicity"; in April of 1972, Van Hoeydonck presented the Museum with a replica of Fallen Astronaut, which is now on display with a replica of the plaque.\n\nIn May of 1972, Scott learned that Van Hoeydonck planned to make more replicas and sell them. Feeling that this would be a violation of the spirit of their agreement, Scott tried to persuade Van Hoeydonck to refrain, but was unsuccessful; 950 signed replicas went on sale for $750 apiece at the Waddell Gallery of New York.\n\nHope this helps.
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how are you supposed to swim on the moon? what about snowboard? i think it is pretty hard to do sports without much gravity.
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Everyone is weightless in space. \n\nWe float because of the lack of gravity. A persons weight, is basically a measure of gravitational force acting downward on them so no gravity= no weight. \n\nWeight is a persons mass (How much space they take up) , multiplied by the acceleration due to gravity at any point on earth ( the rate at which a falling object increases it's speed as it falls -- 9.8 meters per second) . \n\nIf you take away the force of gravity then no matter what the persons mass is, the weight is still zero because any number multiplied by zero is still zero. The person mass in space would still be the same. They would still be bigger, because their mass doesn't change, but yes they would float.
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i dunno, cuz it's kewl, mebbe?\nBTW, imho, this NASA thing is a boondoggle
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Yuri Gagarin, Astronaut \n\nBorn: 9 March 1934 \nBirthplace: Klushino, Russia \nDied: 27 March 1968 (airplane crash) \nBest Known As: The first human in space \nGagarin flew into orbit aboard the Soviet spacecraft Vostok I on 12 April 1961, becoming the first man in space. He orbited the Earth once (his capsule was controlled from the ground) before returning for a safe landing in the Soviet Union roughly 90 minutes later. The 1961 flight made him an international hero; he was awarded the Order of Lenin and made a deputy of the Soviet parliament, the Supreme Soviet. The flight was also considered a political victory for the Soviet Union; the United States didn't put a man into space until Alan Shepard's sub-orbital flight on 5 May 1961. Gagarin had graduated from the Soviet air force academy in 1957 and joined the cosmonaut corps in 1960. After his famous flight he remained in the cosmonaut corps and was killed while piloting an airplane on a training flight in 1968.\n\nOn his way to the launch pad in 1961, Gagarin stopped to empty his bladder. The act became a tradition with subsequent cosmonauts, who urinate on the back tire of the transport bus before their flights... Gagarin was preceded into space by a Russian dog, Laika.
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It is wrong to say that there is no gravity in space. This is why you hear astronauts use the term "microgravity".\n\nGravity is a property of mass. All objects have mass and thus attract other objects with mass. It takes a lot of mass for this effect to be noticable. Here on Earth, the Earth is massive enough that we notice it! Gravity holds us too the Earth. The farther you go from the center of the Earth, the weaker the gravity becomes. For example, the pull of gravity is slighty slightly weaker on Mt. Everest than it is at the beach.\n\nYou'd have to go very far into space for this pull to become half as strong as it is here on Earth. \n\nThe reason astronauts and other things in orbit float is because they are in a perpetual state of free fall do to the fact that the Earth is curved and they are traveling around it at such great speeds that for every foot they fall towards the ground, they move over the horizon just enough that the ground doesn't have a chance to get closer. If the astronauts remained stationary over one point on Earth then they would fall to the ground.\n\nThis is true for anything in any stable orbit. If the Earth were to stop moving around the sun for some reason, it'd fall into the sun.\n\nThere ARE points in space where we can say gravity due to the net force of two or more objects is zero. If you were traveling between the Earth and Moon, or the Earth and Mars, or any two massive celestial bodies, you will find a point where the pull from one body is equal and opposite to the pull from the other body. This is like a balancing point. A little closer to the Moon and that becomes the object which you're falling towards, and a little closer to Earth and that becomes the object which you're falling towards.\n\nThere is also theoretically a distance in space where you could be so far away from anything that the pull of gravity on you is negligable....but not zero.\n\nSo in space you are actually always falling towards something. Comets enering the solar system are ultimately falling towards the sun. The astronauts are falling towards Earth without actually getting any closer, the Earth is falling towards the sun without getting any closdr, the sun is falling towards the center of the galaxy without getting any closer. \n\nI hope you get the idea.
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Yes, it was the Mars Polar Lander. It crashed on landing and was lost.
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By death: Abel\n\nBy translation: Enoch\n\nBy spacecraft: Yuri Gagarin
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no one lost in space- so far as we know. Russians and chinese are not known for their free press...\n\nrescue in space? depends how the guy would fall and how much extra fuel did the rescue crew have. It might be more economical to leave him be and instead of turning back- pick him up on the next orbit. But it really is a case of vectors and velocities also available space (eg close to the atmosphere) and how much air (etc) the guy has.
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Aerial.  Its from space.
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Someone evil.  That stuff is NASTY. I grew up in the 70's and had to drink that swill all the time.  But, ya, was invented for the space program.  Had to punish the astronauts while they were in space, isupose, so they would remember what it was like to be mere mortals.  Astronauts were treated, well, different after they came back.  Like shiny golden gods of the cosmose.  I'm thinking the frereze dired ice cream and meat in a tube were just ways of reminding themthey were still mortals. Ok, just kidding.
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sky dive (something dangerous)
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Go here and register ( Free )..Plug in your location.\nThe site tracks several satellites and the space station.\n\nhttp://www.heavens-above.com
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Mr. Blaha was indeed depressed during his space station mission, but I find no reference to him trying to open the hatch.  On some longer shuttle missions, the commander has padlocked the hatch, so that someone suffering a breakdown or extreme disorientation wouldn't open it by mistake.  \n\nNow, there was a *movie* called "Marooned" in which one of the astronauts in an Apollo type capsule, mistakenly tries to blow the hatch, in fact I think he does. I suspect this was a cryptic slam at Gus Grissom, whose hatch "just blew" as his Mercury capsule bobbed in the water after splashdown.
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NASA is well explain, all that you want. Check this site.\n\nhttp://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/index.html
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I would try checking the meteorobs mailing list. And perhaps posting about your sighting to the list.\n\nhttp://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/meteorobs/\n\nThere's also a fireball log here:\n\nhttp://www.amsmeteors.org/fireball/fireball_log2006.html\n\nUpdate: Turns out you weren't alone. There's a bunch of sightings posted in the fireball log I posted above as well as an update that was posted to spaceweather.com\n\n"On Nov. 28th, in a split-second of total coincidence, a meteoroid the same size as the Lunar Leonid plunged to Earth over the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. What happened? Nothing. It disintegrated harmlessly in the atmosphere. A local security camera captured this movie of the beautiful fireball."\n\nAnd here's the movie they are referring to:\n\nhttp://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/swpod2006/03dec06/huntsville.asf
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Fred Espenak at NASA.com aand what?