Curious Questions and Answers About... Space Machines
What are space machines Any machines that are sent into space They include rockets shuttles satellites and probes 1 XXXT I travel around orbit Earth and keep track of the weather Telescope Hubble Space 9 rocket Falcon i look far into space and take photos
i blast spacecraft from Earth into space Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Do space machines come back to Earth A few come back to Earth after their missions while others carry on working in space Some are deliberately crashed into a moon or planet or left behind there The rest end up as space junk I'm in orbit around the moon right now international Space Station I'm a large base in space where astronauts live and work Which was the first space machine The Russian satellite Sputnik was launched in 1957 and was the first satellite to orbit Earth Sputnik started a space race between Soviet Russia and the U.S. The two countries competed to see who could achieve the most in space i was the size of a beach ball 5
Crew inside Apollo spacecraft Stage 4 goes off on its own Which was the biggest rocket Stage 4 Stage 3 falls away The Saturn V rockets used to carry the Apollo spacecraft to the moon were the largest rockets that have ever launched Stage 3 fires twice once to place the craft in orbit and again to send it toward its destination Stage 3 Saturn V How do rockets take off At launch rockets stand upright They burn huge amounts of liquid or solid fuel which makes a lot of exhaust This blasts out of the back of the rocket pushing it upward Stage 2 falls away Stage 2
Stage 2 puts it near its orbit above Earth As well as using fuel spacecraft can swing past a planet or moon using its gravity to change their speed and direction Stage 1 falls away Earth Stage 1 Stage 1 launches the rocket DMC Why do rockets come apart Each stage of a rocket contains a store of fuel and oxygen When this is burned up in the engines the stage comes apart and falls away When the stage has been used it is no longer useful
