Astronomy & Space - January 2007

I'm in the middle of the arguement but i'm pulling towards hoex! Why has it been like 40 years since NASA has clamed to send someone up. If man landed on the moon we be send people up their at least every decade. But would NASA and the governement lie about something this big. Mabe so, they had to compete with the Soviets. How do the Soviets(Russians) fell on this issue.

2007-01-27 15:57:59 · 12 answers · asked by REV TEXAS 3

How does the slingshot effect work to gain speed? I understand how a body's gravity will accelerate a craft on approach, but won't it take away just as much momentum on departure?

2007-01-27 15:22:34 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 15:21:13 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I have calculated the distance from the Equator to the satellite to be 35,848 km. I know that the radius of the Earth is 6,378 km. Using the Pythagorean Theorem, I calculated a hypotenuse of 36,411 km.

But I am asked to determine above and below which latitudes the satellite cannot see, and this is where I'm stuck. When I solve for the angle using trig identities, I get 10 degrees...which obviously isn't correct.

Does anybody have any suggestions? Thank you!!!

2007-01-27 14:52:46 · 5 answers · asked by JoeSchmo5819 4

Some interesting plans for colonization or perhaps better faster propulsion that costs less money, any cool space visions would be awesome to hear about.

2007-01-27 14:44:45 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 14:40:14 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know that this is bizzare>>>but do you think that aliens are real? What about the alien abduction stories? And>>how do I save myself from being abducted?

2007-01-27 13:56:06 · 6 answers · asked by .oO Day Dreamer 1

2007-01-27 13:51:09 · 2 answers · asked by Zefram 2

2007-01-27 13:45:44 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 13:43:58 · 9 answers · asked by Yousaf 1

at what velocity is moving the light of the headlight?

2007-01-27 13:16:21 · 13 answers · asked by Lost. at. Sea. 7

Need For School Please Help Im desperate

2007-01-27 13:16:19 · 3 answers · asked by bk54de 1

Is it possible that humans have tested weapons of mass destruction on the moon in the past . . . i.e. nuclear weapons? If so, is that why the far side has so many craters? I understand the universe is a violent place, which leaves me pondering why earth has had only one mass extinction that we know of due to deep impact. I mean, if the craters on the moon are due to meteors then surly more than one should or will hit earth that will/should have cause noticable damage...weather, movement, tilt, etc. Also, why dont earths gravity pull in meteors like other planets do?

2007-01-27 12:49:53 · 18 answers · asked by crit 1

There's a gigantic ring around the moon tonight, one of the biggest ones I've ever seen. What is it?

2007-01-27 12:34:48 · 7 answers · asked by hurricanebrian 2

Imagine an object approaching the speed of light relative to a certain observer. As the mass tends towards infinity and the length(and thus the volume, ) drops to zero, won't the object reach a point where it can collapse to form a black hole?

And yet, from a third inertial frame of reference where the object is moving at a smaller relative velocity, won't the object be still unable to collapse?

2007-01-27 11:35:42 · 2 answers · asked by sh 1

I know it sounds weird but while contemplating a story idea, and after watching a special on a Yellow Stone explosion, I wondered what it would look like from space. I mean what would the ISS astro/cosmonauts see? I'm sure the sky would be entirely black sulfur clouds and most means of communication with ground control would be gone. So what would they do?

How long would their supplies last? Wouldn't they need to eventually attempt a landing? Would it work? Wouldn't it look like the very alien worlds they were meant to explore once they land? They'd have to wear their space suits to breathe in the sulfur atmosphere, right?

I don't know anything about how astronauts and space technologies work, and I'd like this to be a particularly realistic yet epic story that explores how small man is compared to the collosal forces of the universe. So my question is how would this scenario play out, realistically.

2007-01-27 11:16:44 · 5 answers · asked by Smokey 2

2007-01-27 11:11:35 · 12 answers · asked by septembrie06 1

2007-01-27 10:25:23 · 9 answers · asked by ? 5

There is a lot of pictorial evidence to suggest otherwise:

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/moon.htm

http://space.about.com/od/astronomyhistory/a/moonhoax.htm

http://batesmotel.8m.com/

2007-01-27 10:07:18 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is there any life on the planet mars? Because I saw photos of the landscape of mars like it has been ruined or it ran out of water maybe of pollution. Do you think there is life on The planet Mars??

2007-01-27 10:02:10 · 7 answers · asked by I'm your biggest fan. 2

We all agree ;
That there was a lineal progression in manned space flight
That those who flew the missions were superb pilots and engineers
That 7 UNMANNED vehicles had landed on the moon prior to 7/20/69
That on 12/24/68 Apollo 8 was in lunar orbit and took pictures of Earth
That on Apollo 10 Gene Cernan cursed into an open mike while spinning above the lunar surface- and NASA got letters complaining about it.
That 9 Saturn V rockets left earth and made it to the moon-hard to fake a 365' rocket launch
That 9 Apollo Command Modules returned and show the charring commensurate with a 25000 mph re-entry.
That in all the movies and science fiction prior to July 1969 nobody had ever envisioned that something that looked like the LM would be the spacecraft that would actually land on the moon
The classic scenario was always the large rocket leaves Earth , lands on the moon ,returns to Earth as a large rocket
When does it become impossible ?

RIP Griisom White & Chaffee

2007-01-27 09:58:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seems to me, sending a rocket to land on Mars and having a robot maneuver on the Martian surface has to be a lot tougher than sending men to the moon. So, wouldn't it follow that this is also a NASA hoax? Where are the conspiracy theories on this one?

2007-01-27 09:51:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 09:43:24 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous

Does this planet seem real to you with all its problems and almost all the planet's resources being depleated?

2007-01-27 09:36:32 · 4 answers · asked by ZORRO 3

they died right? where did their bodies go then?

(just curious)

2007-01-27 09:34:33 · 4 answers · asked by ? 2

2007-01-27 09:27:20 · 4 answers · asked by jimmyrj86 1

The moon was out during the day today, and it was very clear in the sky, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't see it in the eyepiece of my Celestron PowerSeeker60, until half an hour of scanning and panning around the skies - I eventually found it by accident.

I'm not sure how I can get my finderscope to work that is, I managed to locate it in my finderscope (even though the image is upside down and mirrored) but when the moon was centered in my finderscope - it was nowhere to be seen in my telescope!? How do I set it up so it actually does the "find" part of "finderscope"?

Another quick question - is there a lense that I can get for this telescope which is a very minimal amount of magnification, so that I can look at objects through my telescope and have it act as maybe a bit stronger than a finderscope?

Thanks in advance - Jon.

2007-01-27 09:13:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 08:56:20 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

do you think we actually landed on the moon or was it a conspiracy?

2007-01-27 08:46:27 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-01-27 08:36:22 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous