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Aw shucks ... Shuttle Atlantis, STS 117, was scheduled to land today but was postponed until tomorrow. The weather was pretty bad and they needed to have better conditions. They get only one chance. However, I did have some fun. We watched a humongous Imax movie about the Apollo astronauts walking on the moon. It showed a lot of actual footage from the different spacewalks on the moon.
I was so inspired by the movie to walk on the moon I talked a couple of guys to suit up and get ready to go with me. Hey, I can be a kid too!Remember the prisms we studied in math? Today we found out how the colors of the spectrum can be used to identify the properties of different elements. Once we know what color the planets or stars are, we can tell what elements the planet is made up of.
I did pick up a lot information on the space program ... stuff like
- The runway at the Kennedy Space Center is 15,000 ft long and 300 feet wide!
- The Shuttle lands at 217 miles per hour - that's 8 miles per second!
- The Shuttle orbits the Earth in 1.5 hours
- It takes 45 minutes for the Shuttle to land once entering the atmosphere
- For every pound of weight sent into space it takes an additional 100 pounds of fuel
- When astronauts take a shower, they vacuum the soap and water off their body
- The Shuttle travels at 17,500 miles per hour ... that's 10 times faster that a bullet.
- The names astronaut and cosmonaut are both translated as star voyager
That's it for today ... have a great one.
2 comments:
Hi Mr.Navis
read your blog, how bad was the weather at the time,? Was it so bad that the shuttle couldent and so what does the shuttle do? Float around in space?
Hey, how about posting comparisons for the others that don't understand space stuff... like the speed in which a 747 lands... or the length of HKIA's landing strip?
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