Archive for the ‘Astronomy & Space’ Category

Would it be possible to create a human space capsule?

Saturday, November 8th, 2008
timespiral asked:


If a space shuttle was in trouble and could not reach the space station, what if the shuttle carried several human space capsules for each astronaut. The astronaut would descend through the atmosphere in these capsules and when the atmospheric pressure reached a certain altitude a parachute would deploy. Could an astronaut survie these g forces and the atmospheric heating?

What is the material used to make the Apollo 13 Space Capsule? Is the same material used now?

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
pbachu asked:


What is the maximum temperature that the capsule outer surface attains on its return journey? And what will be the temperature inside the capsule at that point?
Is space capsule system used at all now? If so, why do they still do that when they now have Columbia style shuttles. As many details as possible please.