Can You Hear a Shout in Space?: Questions and Answers About Space Exploration (Scholastic Question and Answer Series)
Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger
Language: English
Pages: 50
ISBN: 7020038530
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Images and stories about space exploration surround kids, fueling their curiosity about what lies beyond Earth's atmosphere. In this easy-to-understand book, kids will learn how a rocket works, how a satellite stays in orbit, how a space station is built, what itıs like to be an astronaut, and much, much more.
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the feeling of being weightless. If you were standing on a scale in the elevator, the scale would register zero at the moment the elevator dropped. Who took the first “space walk”? Aleksei Leonov of the Soviet Union, on March 18, 1965. Leonov spent 10 minutes floating outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. Who was the first person to walk on the moon? The American astronaut Neil Armstrong, on July 20, 1969. On stepping out onto the moon, Armstrong spoke these famous words: “That’s one small step for
human being had visited another object in space. Thousands of men and women working together had scored one of the greatest triumphs of all time! 12 13 Have there been other moon landings? Yes. There were six moon landings between 1969 and 1972. Altogether, 12 astronauts have landed on the moon. On the last three landings, astronauts explored the moon with a buggy called the lunar rover. What did the astronauts bring back from the moon? Hundreds of pounds of moon rocks and soil. The rocks
Then a vacuum-cleaner-like attachment sucks off the soapy water. Just be sure to save enough water to rinse off the soap! Most astronauts keep clean with sponge baths. They put water and soap on a washcloth and wash that way. They use special soap that does not need rinsing. Drying off with a clean towel is all it takes. How do you comb your hair in space? With care. Long hair gets snagged and tangled when you’re weightless. So most astronauts wear their hair short—and just give it a quick brush
might do very well. The biggest crops will probably be peanuts and soybeans. 43 Will people work in space factories? Yes. Certain special medicines, metals, and microchips may be made best in weightless space factories. The first “Made in Space” products already exist. They are tiny balls made from liquid plastic. Scientists use the spheres, each as big as a pinpoint, to measure the superfine holes in certain filters. When made on Earth, each ball is not exactly round. The ones made in space
Voskhod 2 12 Voyager 1 36, 39 Voyager 2 36, 39 washing 25 water 15, 16, 25, 43, 44 weightlessness 12, 16, 22, 25, 26, 32, 40, 44 X-33 40 About the Authors Mel and Gilda Berger have been following space exploration from the launch of Sputnik (1957) to the landing of the first people on the moon (1969) to the start of the International Space Station (1998). “For now, we’re happy to read and write about space,” they say, “and experience space travel vicariously!” About the Illustrator Vincent Di
