Ask An Astronaut
Growing up, it was the dream of many my contemporaries to become astronauts. To us, they were almost like gods those people who had been chosen to leave the bonds of earth. The only way we had of communicating with them was via the US mail if we wanted to ask them any sort of question. Today’s kids have it a little easier, though, thanks to the Internet.
Called Ask An Astronaut, this site is one that allows anyone, not just kids, to ask any and all questions of former and current space explorers. The way it works is that you email a question to the current answering astronaut, and it may or may not be chosen by the webmaster for him to answer. The answers are posted to the site. There are also photos, sounds, and movies from the space missions, directories for each astronaut with detailed information on their missions, as well as numerous other space-related links. The information here is accurate and up to date, and fun to read and explore.
So warm up those questions, and send them off. This is one truly interactive site that is fun to visit and return to. Have a nice stop.
http://www.nss.org/askastro/home.html
My second grade students are reading a story about Ellen Ochoa. We learned one of her jobs on the Discovery was to run the robotic arm releasing and catching satellites. We wondered how many satellites there are in orbit around the earth. Can you please tell us? Thank you.
Hi there, I am a confused little boy. Please answer my questions.
We had this big race to the moon with the Russians but not only did we beat them there they have not been able to do it, 40 years later? Why is that? Why did they give up? Are they just real sore losers?
Why would we have no reason to return to the moon? I have a hard time believing that the Military would not want to have bases on the moon.
Why has no other nation even sent a craft to orbit the moon, let alone attempt to get there with humans?
It is obvious scientist have present questions about the moon, we are blowing things up on it. Why can’t we ‘return’ to the moon?
Too expensive? Well in the 60s, a not so prosperous time, we were engaged in a cold war as well as a hot war in Asia, yet we still managed to to go SEVEN times using a NEW, disposable, multi-sectioned spacecraft each time?
When the astronauts are seen jumping, why are they only clearing like a foot? Wouldn’t you jump much higher in 1/6th gravity?
Given the complete lack of air resistance on the moon, shouldn’t things fall faster? Why does it appear as if they are bouncing along so slowly? Shouldn’t they have been moving faster than on Earth?
When taking all those pictures, why did they not once take a shot of the stars? No atmosphere, they should have been pretty darn bright. Since they had to “pre-program” all the cameras so they could take the pictures with little to no focusing from the photographers, why did they not program a set so we could see what stars look like on the moon? Great place for future telescopes right? Because the stars are so bright. Why does no one, except the astronauts, know what those stars look like?
How is it possible that Nasa can lose 700 boxes of the video of the moonlandings? It is obvious a lot of time went into making the cameras and video able to work on the moon.
As to the footage, that was aired. Is it not true that it was, “Because Nassa’s equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day, the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a TV camera for broascast.” As Nasa says. Is this true?
I guess it does not really matter if all the tapes are ‘missing’ right?
Isn’t it true that all of the info is missing? All of the data, the entire alleged record of the moon landings, the 13,000 plus reels, also the original plans/blue prints for the lunar modules, and the lunar rovers as well as the Saturn rockets?
No wonder NASA has not been given any money to go to the moon, they would probably just lose it.
I am a confused little boy, please answer my questions.
We had this big race to the moon with the Russians but not only did we beat them there they have not been able to do it, 40 years later? Why is that? Why did they give up? Are they just real sore losers?
Why would we have no reason to return to the moon? I have a hard time believing that the Military would not want to have bases on the moon.
Why has no other nation even sent a craft to orbit the moon, let alone attempt to get there with humans?
It is obvious scientist have present questions about the moon, we are blowing things up on it. Why can’t we ‘return’ to the moon?
Too expensive? Well in the 60s, a not so prosperous time, we were engaged in a cold war as well as a hot war in Asia, yet we still managed to to go SEVEN times using a NEW, disposable, multi-sectioned spacecraft each time?
When the astronauts are seen jumping, why are they only clearing like a foot? Wouldn’t you jump much higher in 1/6th gravity?
Given the complete lack of air resistance on the moon, shouldn’t things fall faster? Why does it appear as if they are bouncing along so slowly? Shouldn’t they have been moving faster than on Earth?
When taking all those pictures, why did they not once take a shot of the stars? No atmosphere, they should have been pretty darn bright. Since they had to “pre-program” all the cameras so they could take the pictures with little to no focusing from the photographers, why did they not program a set so we could see what stars look like on the moon? Great place for future telescopes right? Because the stars are so bright. Why does no one, except the astronauts, know what those stars look like?
How is it possible that Nasa can lose 700 boxes of the video of the moonlandings? It is obvious a lot of time went into making the cameras and video able to work on the moon.
As to the footage, that was aired. Is it not true that it was, “Because Nassa’s equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day, the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a TV camera for broascast.” As Nasa says. Is this true?
I guess it does not really matter if all the tapes are ‘missing’ right?
Isn’t it true that all of the info is missing? All of the data, the entire alleged record of the moon landings, the 13,000 plus reels, also the original plans/blue prints for the lunar modules, and the lunar rovers as well as the Saturn rockets?
No wonder NASA has not been given any money to go to the moon, they would probably just lose it.