The distance from NASA to Orlando is 44 miles.
The distance between Orlando and Kennedy Space Center is 44 miles.
You can visit NASA in Florida.
Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Titusville, Florida (just outside Orlando), is NASA's human spaceflight launch facility.
The KSC Bus Tour is the only one included in the admission ticket; the other tours cost an additional $25 for adults and $19 for children ages 3-11
Most space junk is hard to get rid of and eventually the space junk can sometimes fall back to earth after several years.
Debris left in orbits below 600 km normally fall back to Earth within several years.
At altitudes of 800 km, the time for orbital decay is often measured in decades.
Above 1,000 km, orbital debris will normally continue circling the Earth for a century or more.
A demonstration mission to test an idea to clean up space debris launched Monday morning local time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Known as ELSA-d, the mission will exhibit technology that could help capture space junk, the millions of pieces of orbital debris that float above Earth.
The more than 8,000 metric tons of debris threaten the loss of services we rely on for Earth-bound life, including weather forecasting, telecommunications and GPS systems.
The spacecraft works by attempting to attach itself to dead satellites and pushing them toward Earth to burn up in the atmosphere.
ELSA-d, which stands for End-of-Life Services by Astroscale, will be carried out by a "servicer satellite" and a "client satellite" that launched together, according to Astroscale, the Japan-based company behind the mission.
Using a magnetic docking technology, the servicer will release and try to "rendezvous" with the client, which will act as a mock piece of space junk.
The mission, which will be run from the U.K., will carry out this catch and release process repeatedly over the course of six months.
The goal is to prove the servicer satellite's ability to track down and dock with its target in varying levels of complexity.
The spacecraft is not designed to capture dead satellites already in orbit, but rather future satellites that would be launched with compatible docking plates on them.
Sputnik 1 is no longer in orbit.
On October 4th, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, which rose up above Earth's atmosphere and entered orbit around our planet, circumnavigating it one every 90 minutes.
But Sputnik itself isn't in orbit around Earth any longer.
The signals continued for 21 days until the transmitter batteries ran out on 26 October 1957.
Sputnik 1 burned up on 4 January 1958 while reentering Earth's atmosphere, after three months, 1,440 completed orbits of the Earth, and a distance traveled of about 7.0×107 km (4.3×107 mi).
A plane can't fly into space because there's no air and planes require air for combustion and to remain in flight.
There's simply no air to travel over and under an airplane's wings in space, which is a main reason airplanes can't fly in space.
Another reason airplanes can't fly in space is because they require air to generate combustion.
Since there isn't any air in space, airplanes must stay within the Earth's atmosphere.
There is oxygen in space, however the oxygen in space is not good enough to sustain life.
In space, there is very little breathable oxygen.
A ground based experiment by an experimental astrophysicist at Syracuse University found that oxygen atoms cling tightly to stardust.
This prevents the oxygen atoms from joining together to form oxygen molecules.
What happens to oxygen in outer space?
So, if the sealed container is opened up in space, the oxygen would quickly leak out, because the molecules near the vacuum edge would be instantaneously kicked out by the gas innermost molecules.
This would happen rather quickly and in a chained manner, but is dependent on the size of the open hole.
Space has a smell that is like gunpowder, sulfur, ozone and a faint acid smell.
We can't smell space directly, because our noses don't work in a vacuum.
However the astronauts aboard the ISS have reported that they notice a metallic aroma – like the smell of welding fumes – on the surface of their spacesuits once the airlock has re-pressurized.
Life in space is similar to life on earth however if yo go out into space you have to wear a space suit and other times you have to be in the space shuttle and there's also no gravity to hold you down.
Space is very dangerous – and without protection, people would not be able to survive there.
In space, there's no air – so you couldn't breathe. It's cold – so you'd freeze.
And there's lots of nasty radiation (from the Sun, and from the rest of the Universe), so you'd get really, really bad sunburn.
The only significant differences from living on Earth are that they operate in the confined space of the Space Shuttle orbiter cabin and that they, and all objects inside the cabin, float.
Because of microgravity on the Space Shuttle, some jobs, like handling tools and fluids, become more difficult.
There have been several people that have died in space.
There have been at least 18 deaths in space which include preparation for entry in space and those in space and some on return to earth from space.
A total of 18 people have lost their lives either while in space or in preparation for a space mission, in four separate incidents.
Given the risks involved in space flight, this number is surprisingly low.
The remaining four fatalities during spaceflight were all cosmonauts from the Soviet Union.
As of March 2021, in-flight accidents have killed 15 astronauts and 4 cosmonauts, in five separate incidents.
Three of them had flown above the Kármán line (edge of space), and one was intended to do so.
No Soviet or Russian cosmonauts have died during spaceflight since 1971.
Remains are generally not scattered in space so as not to contribute to space debris.
Remains are sealed until the spacecraft burns up upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere or they reach their extraterrestrial destinations.
What happens if someone dies in space?
10 seconds of exposure to the vacuum of space would force the water in their skin and blood to vaporize, while their body expanded outward like a balloon being filled with air.
Their lungs would collapse, and after 30 seconds they would be paralyzed—if they weren't already dead by this point.