Destination Outer Space
Survival In Space
Outer space is an extremely hostile place. If you were to step outside a spacecraft, such as the International space station, or on a world with little or no atmosphere such as the moon or Mars without the protection of a space suit, then the following things would happen:
- You would lose consciousness because there is no oxygen. This could occur in as little as 15 seconds.
- Because there is no air pressure to keep your blood and body fluids in a liquid state, the fluids would "boil." Because the "boiling process" would cause them to lose heat energy rapidly, the fluids would freeze before they were evaporated totally.
- Your tissues (skin,heart, other internal organs) would expand because of the boiling fluids. However, they would not "explode" as depicted in some science fiction movies, such as "Total Recall."
- You would face extreme changes in temperature sun 248 degrees Fahrenheit or 120 degrees Celsius shade minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit or minus 100 degrees Celsius
How The Space Suits Work
Protection
Air Environment
Temputures
WATCH THE VIEDO OF THE FIRST MAN WALKING ON THE MOON!
daily lives in outer space
For astronauts, the day starts with or without sunrise, at 6am GMT. Cocooned in quarters the size of a telephone booth, crew unzip from jacket-like sleeping bags, heads sometimes fastened with Velcro to a pillow or bags bungeed to the walls.
Then they float to one of two bathrooms, “where you crave gravity a lot".
Monday through Friday, the crew commutes to work in their socks. A conference call with Mission Control once in the morning and once in the evening allows the astronauts to discuss the day’s tasks. They spend most of their day maintaining or repairing the station—like the broken valve in the cooling pump in 2013—and working on experiments with scientists on the ground. One experiment might measure how space affects the astronauts’ reaction time.