domingo, 25 de fevereiro de 2007

18 perguntas preparadas para os astronautas

São dezoito as perguntas que os estudantes portugueses prepararam para, muito possivelmente, Sunita Williams. As perguntas serão feitas em inglês, a língua da astronauta.

Aqui estão elas:

1. Before leaving for any mission in space, you have many months of preparation. Is the reality very different from the tests you go through on Earth?
2. Isn't it difficult to live in a small closed space during so long a time?
3. What kind of food do you eat?
4. Is there any process of recycling water in space? If so, what is it?
5. How do you manage to keep the level of oxygen steady inside the spaceship?
6. How do you get rid of your waste?
7. Do you have any trouble in falling asleep? How do you distinguish if it's day or night?
8. What's the official language on the ISS?
9. What do you feel when you see the Earth from the space? What's the feeling?
10. Isn't it boring only to see stars, planets and space?
11. What do you miss the most when you are in space?
12. Is the relationship between astronauts strictly professional or have you become friends? Have you ever had any arguments? How did you solve them?
13. How can you repair the spaceship if it is somehow damaged?
14. For how long can you stay in space? What is the maximum time? Is there a limit for the number of missions an astronaut can do in space?
15. When you come back to Earth from a space mission, how do you adapt to gravity? Do you need any external help? What kind of help?
16. What kind of scientific research are you doing now?
17. What's the importance of space research to science and technical progress?
18. What do you think about other planets colonization? Will it be possible or is it only fiction?

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