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Astronauts
TRUE or
FALSE?
would explode This double-layered
bodysuit is known
as a liquid cooling
and ventilation
garment (LCVG).
without space suits

There would be no explosions, but
it would still be the final frontier.

Without space suits, astronauts
would die, either from the
freezing cold or from

their blood boiling due
to the drop in pressure.

SPACE LIFE

Two oxygen tanks
are stored inside the
life support system,
with the computer,
radio, and water tank.
The International Space Station (ISS) is
about 240 miles (390 km) above Earth.
Astronauts spend months there, working Gloves are thick
in the laboratories or carrying out station enough to protect
maintenance. There is a galley kitchen, the hands but
exercise equipment, and sleep cabins. thin enough to
Sleeping bags are fixed so they cannot allow ease
float away in the weightless conditions. of movement.

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