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Behind the Space Travel

2001
Behind the Space Travel - Everyone on the Earth focuses on the space travel e.g. a trip to Mars. But does there anyone care about the things that are behind the space travel? This site provides much information about rockets, space shuttles, space station and spacesuits, which are essential for early stage of exploring space. As an interdisciplinary entry, we not only give information about the information stated above, but also discuss physics (the concept about force, including gravitational force, friction, action and reaction pair, weightlessness etc.) and biology (the feelings of astronauts when they first encounter microgravity and the countermeasures). In this site, NASA’s space projects such as Air-breathing rockets, space elevator and space plane, which will make space travel much cheaper, are introduced. Moreover, spin-off products of space technology are also introduced in this entry.