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| 11.
David Bragg,
of Carlisle, England,
asks the question: |
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What materials are
spacesuits made of?
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| 12.
Ricky Brookes,
of Liverpool,
asks the question: |
Why don't
the STS numbers for each shuttle flight go sequentially? For
example, STS-107 seems to follow STS-111.
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| 13.
Michael Domingo,
of Dallas, Texas,
asks the question: |
I live
in the Dallas, Texas, area. One night back in 1999 (STS-96?),
we got to see a shuttle as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere
on its way to landing at KSC. It looked like an airplane-shaped
fireball and trailed beautiful white smoke across the horizon.
Will we be able to see this again someday? What circumstances
have to come together to make this happen?
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| 14.
Susan Arb,
of Yakima, Wash.,
asks the question: |
What does
each of the markings (bent circles, flags, poles) on the maps
that track the shuttle's progress designate?
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| 15.
Steven Madwin, of Fremont, Calif. ,
asks the question: |
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During normal docked
operations, why is the station/shuttle complex inclined about
20 degrees above the velocity vector?
ANSWER
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| 16.
Real Trudel,
of Montreal, Quebec,
asks the question: |
How many
decibels are emitted by the shuttle engines and the boosters
at liftoff?
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| 17.
Carsten Feilberg,
of Copenhagen, Denmark ,
asks the question: |
During
Apollo the astronauts used cuff-checklists. Is this still common
practice on EVAs from the shuttle, or is it replaced by the
EVA-supervisor inside the shuttle?
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| 18.
Jeff Kupke,
of Dover, N.J.,
asks the question: |
I have
noticed that on the screen which shows the shuttle's (or station's)
current orientation and attitude, you can see the Tracking and
Data Relay Satellites, and that you can see each satellite's
approximate coverage area. My question is, why does each one
have a small chunk missing from it's coverage area, rather than
a perfect circle? Is it due to antenna orientation on the satellite?
ANSWER
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