Space and its Mysteries
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Spaceflight (Sections 12.1-
12.7)
Conditions in interplanetary spaceWeightlessness (14-16)Weightlessness and space travel – exercise bikes etc. Spaceflight (14-16)Astronaut training
(14-16)Mass and weight Mass and weight (11-14)Power for a spacecraftRockets (14-16)Force = mass x accelerationNewton's second law (14-16)Social and economic benefits of space flightSpaceflight (14-16)
The structure of the Universe and the chance of extraterrestrial life
(Sections 12.8-12.21)
Remote sensing, robot landers and the search for
extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life (14-16)(To be
expanded)
Problems of long space flightsSpaceflight (14-16)Gravity in astronomy and the existence of Black HolesGravitation (14-16)Black holes (14-16)Gravitational field strengthMass and weight (11-14)Stellar evolutionLife and death of stars (14-16)Asteroid and/or comet collision with the EarthAsteroid
collision (14-16) (To be expanded)
Orbit of a cometComets (14-16)Relative sizes of objects in the Universe (Sun, planets, moons, stars, galaxies)
Data
Galaxies catalogue (14-16)Solar system
(11-14)Solar system tour (11-14)Galaxies (11-14)Planetary data (11-14)Data-logging
and remote sensing(This section is currently being prepared)
The Solar
system, the Milky Way and other galaxiesSolar system tour (11-14)Beyond the Solar System (11-14)Milky Way (11-14)Galaxies (11-14)Extraterrestrial lifeExtraterrestrial live (14-16)Dark
matterExtraterrestrial live (14-16)Dark matter (16-19)The origin and fate of the UniverseBig Bang (14-16)Red
shift (14-16)Galactic speeds (14-16)Universe flat open or closed (16-19)Conditions for life on a planetLife on
other planets (14-16)
