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• A space suit weighs 280 lb
(127 kg)—without anyone in it!

• It takes 45 minutes to put on,
including the special clothes worn
INESTIMABLY HUGE UNIVERSE underneath to keep the astronaut cool.
• An oxygen supply is fanned
There are more stars in our universe than through the suit so the astronaut can breathe.
The International Space grains of sand on all of Earth’s beaches. SPACESUITS
• The suit is pressurized—it
Station orbits the Earth at about
17,500 mph squeezes the astronaut’s body to stop his
or her body fluids from boiling in space.
(28,000 kph). ROCKET • The helmet’s visor has a layer of gold
FUEL
This means astronauts aboard the to protect against the Sun’s rays.
ISS see the Sun rise and set
every 90 minutes.

The Space Shuttle was a spacecraft
used to take astronauts into and back
from space.
The Space Shuttle
carried nearly
528,000
gallons
(2 million liters) of
fuel just in its external
tank. That’s around
10,000
bathtubs of fuel.

Each of the two
Solid Rocket Boosters
carried more than
1 million lb

(454,000 kg)
1969 of solid propellant.

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