Surprising Facts Of Space Travel

Editorials News | Aug-23-2019

Surprising Facts Of Space Travel

Space exploration is the discovery and scrutiny of immortal structures in outer space by flourishing and expanding space technology. While the study of space is carried out mainly by astronomers with telescopes, the physical exploration of space is conducted both by unmanned robotic space probes and human spaceflight.

Interesting Facts About Space Travel

1. Space travel’s cost
One of the biggest impediment to man’s exploration of the solar system is the extortionate cost. It’s been approximated that the total cost of the Apollo 11 mission where first put a man on the moon was $25.4 billion. In today’s money, that’s up to $135 billion. Apparently, technological approaches have since made space travel a lot less expensive in amount, but when you realize that the cost of just one EMU, which is the special suit astronauts wear to go outside the shuttle, is $12 million.

2. Astronaut food

Astronauts have a foxy dim-witted diet. Because of limited space, they are confined to 3.8 pounds of food a day, which is pre-prepared, and then made ready to eat by adding water or heating, Fresh fruit and vegetables can’t be refrigerated, so they last only for a few days. But the good thing is, the astronauts do have a pretty good range of relish to take with them, so if the food’s too tame they can just legions it is in Tabasco or mustard.

3. Bathroom bust-ups
In 1998 The International Space Station was launched, It was a successful joint projects by the Americans and Russians. But hearsay has it that after a while stiffness between the two sets of astronauts lead to promote, over the sharing of bathrooms. Supposedly, the Russian diet, including piece such as jellied fish, had a propensity to blockade the pipes, and the Americans banned them from using their toilet.

4. Only two things are assertive, death and taxes
Canadian Chris Hadfield a very famous astronaut, became the first person to record a song in space. He’s not the only record-setter though. In 2013, a Russian cosmonaut called Pavel Vinogradov was the first human who paid his income taxes from space, using the internet to connect with the portal operated by the Russian tax authorities. There is no escape from the taxman.
5. Stink of the moon
Several astronauts who have been on missions there claim that the moon smells is like wet ashes, or blown like grenades. So not chase then. And astronauts have also reported that space itself smells imperceptibly of burned stick.

By – Tripti Varun
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