Just four months after Apollo 11鈥檚 historic landing on the moon in 1969, 鈥淚ntrepid,鈥� Apollo 12鈥檚 lunar lander, made a perfect landing. It was expected that in April of 1970, 鈥淎quarius,鈥� Apollo 13鈥檚...
Astronauts inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide, just like you and me. On Earth, where exhaled air warmed by our bodies naturally rises away from us, the possibility of inhaling too much carbon...
Astronauts need to sleep next to a ventilator fan while they鈥檙e in weightless orbit; otherwise, they might suffocate in their sleep. Reason being, is that warm air does not naturally rise when...
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