hockey in space

Hockey is a game that is played on ice with a puck that weighs 3 oz. and of course there is gravity to keep everything in place. But playing hockey in space in a very different thing because you are basically playing hockey in Zero Gravity. it may not be like a real life game but I think it sure would be fun. there is many other videos of sports and other fun activities that are being played in Zero Gravity. there is not many things that are the same when you are playing on Earth and in Space. everything on earth has gravity which is why nothing is floating all over the place and the cause of everything staying where it is. here is the video of some astronauts playing hockey in Zero Gravity.

if you are interested in looking at more videos, feel free to go to their YouTube channel.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI9BX-UcPOhsfr0fTklLytQ

First mission to the moon

Apollo 11 was the first ever manned mission to land on the Moon.The first steps that were taken on another planet were by some men named Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, and took place on July 20 1969. The Astronauts brought back with them samples of body from another planet. The Apollo 11 spacecraft was launched from the Kennedy Space Center at 13:32:00 UT on July 16, 1969.

First man in space

On April 12 1961, a Russian Cosmonaut (Yuri Gagarin) became the first human to ever travel into outer space. The Russian team worked hard to beat a deadline America had which was to send a man into space by 1961. There were more than 200 Russian Air Force fighter pilots that were chosen as cosmonaut candidates. Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin, the third of four children, born on March 9, 1934 in a small village a hundred miles from Moscow. As a teen Yuri Gagarin was offered a chance to join the flying club which he eagerly accepted. Yuri Gagarin went on his first solo flight in 1955. Only a few years later he submitted a request to be considered a Cosmonaut. On April 12, 1961, at 9:07 a.m. Moscow time, the Vostok 1 spacecraft blasted off from the Soviets launch site.

Interesting Earth Facts

The world is very very large. there is so many things in this world that are hard to believe, even when seeing it with your own two eyes. this video is a overview of the Earth from space. According to some research the Earth is approximately 4.54 billion years old, also know as the only planet that can support life.

Here is a profile on Earth.

• Mass- 5,972,190,000,000,000 Billion kg
• Equatorial diameter- 12,756 km
• Polar diameter- 12,714
• Equatorial Circumference- 40,030
• Orbit Distance- 149,598,262 km ( 1 AU)
• Orbit period- 365.26 Earth days
• Surface temperature- -88 to 58 degrees Celsius

Interesting Facts on Earth

• China's air pollution is visible from space but The Great Wall of China is not.
• NASA estimates on average that 1 piece of space junk returns to earth each day. 
• Continents move 2 cm each year
• 200,000 people are born everyday.

First One-Year Mission

 For the first time ever there will be two men who will be sent into space for one whole year. NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Federal Space Agency Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko. Both astronauts are staying in space for a long duration to get more data on changes of the human body in space. NASA understands the potential challenges these two men could face while in space. NASA officials hope to use the International Space Station as a test bed for understanding how long the space flights can affect the humans psychologically and physically. The astronauts will take part in many experiments to see how the one year mission in space affects their eyes,bones, and other body parts. As of right now Kelly will monitor 19 shared space station experiments on the human body for NASA.

Space Facts

Outer space is very fascinating and crazy if you really think about it!

Here are some facts about Outer Space.

1. There are more than 100 billion galaxies in the universe.

2. The largest galaxies have nearly 400 billion stars.

3. There are an estimated 100 billion stars in the Milky Way (our galaxy).

4. 1.3 million Earths can fit into the sun.

5. The sun is the largest object in our Solar System.

6. The surface of the Sun is 6,000 C (11,000 F)

7. The interior of the Sun is 15,000,000 C (27,000,000 F)

8. Every year the moon moves 3.8 cm further away from the Earth.

9.  Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System.

10. Astronauts can't burp in space.

11. When you scream in space no one can hear it.

12. Outer Space exploration began with high altitude balloons.

13. The conditions of outer space allow our spines to stretch out and cause us to be about 2 inches taller.

14. Liquids in space do not flow and instead they form into spheres. 

15. Saturn's moon (titan) has a lot of evidence of organic life chemicals in its atmosphere.

16. In space the skin of your feet falls off.

17. On Venus a day last longer than 1 year on earth.

18. You can cry in space, but your tears won't fall.

19. The Apollo crews did not have any life insurance.

20.  In space metals stick together

Would you go space? If so why? i would go to space to see
all the stars close up and to see other planets including Earth. it would probably be scary  as your taking off. but if i ever had the chance to go to space i would

Pluto

Pluto orbits the orbit of Neptune, pluto is much smaller than any other official planet. Pluto is smaller than the seven of the Solar System's (the Moon, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Titan and Triton). Pluto is (39.5 AU) from the sun. Pluto was discovered in 1930 by a prosperous accident. Calculations which later turned out to be in error had predicted a planet beyond Neptune, based on the motions of Uranus and Neptune. Pluto has not been visited by a spacecraft but a spacecraft called New Horizons was launched in January 2006 and if all goes good it should reach pluto this year(2015). In late 2005 a team using the Hubble Space Telescope discovered two additional tiny moons orbiting pluto. Pluto rotates in the opposite direction from most of the other planets. The surface temperature of pluto varies from -235 and -210C (38-68 K). Pluto's largest satellite is called (Charon) which was discovered in 1978 by Jim Christy Charon is 19,640 Km from Pluto.

This is pluto 

This is the largest moon Pluto has.

Kennedy Space Center

A bit more than five decades ago, launch pads and towers began to rise one by one. By 1960, the "Missle Firing Laboratory" had become an extension of NASA'S Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center helped make the stage for America’s adventure to space and continues to be America’s most famous working spaceport. if you are interested in space and want to learn more about space maybe you should look in to taking a trip to the Kennedy Space Center located in Cape Canaveral,Fl. they have a variety of activities and A bit more than five decades ago, launch pads and towers began to rise one by one. By 1960, the "Missle Firing Laboratory" had become an extension of NASA'S Marshall Space Flight Center. NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center helped make the stage for America’s adventure to space and continues to be America’s most famous working spaceport. if you are interested in space and want to learn more about space maybe you should look in to taking a trip to the Kennedy Space Center located in Cape Canaveral,Fl. they have a variety of activities and one of their main attractions is the shuttle launch experience.  The shuttle launch experience provides a feeling that a astronaut would have before taking off in to space. The kennedy Space Center  has restaurants, gift shops and many artifacts. Inside of the space center complex is the shuttle that went to the moon on display. The tickets are at a reasonable price and is worth your money.

Shuttle Launch Experience

kennedy Space Center