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1/6/2013 4:32:02 AM
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When people go to space, where do they get the air?
On the international space station for example. People are up there for a long long time, where does all the air come from? It's not like they do air deliveries every so often, so how do they keep breathing? Surely there isn't enough space on the space station to store enough air to last them for months.
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I bet they have like, tiny trees in the rooms, or something.
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there's a really long tube that connects the ISS to the Earth, that's how they get their air and when it's time to go home just strap on a parachute and down the tube they go !
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DAS B00T x2 I bet they have like, tiny trees in the rooms, or something.[/quote] I was thinking this too. Probably have a little green room in the undercarriage of the shuttle.
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recycled air, I guess, same thing with the water.
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I would guess some sort of air recycling contraption. Turn the carbon dioxide into oxygen. Maybe they have plants up there?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DAS B00T x2 I bet they have like, tiny trees in the rooms, or something.[/quote] It's so obvious now! That's pretty clever.
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[url=http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2000/ast13nov_1/]Here's an article about this at Nasa.[/url]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] r c takedown [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DAS B00T x2 I bet they have like, tiny trees in the rooms, or something.[/quote] It's so obvious now! That's pretty clever. [/quote]You do realize that even though trees produce oxygen, [b]they don't produce enough breathable air by themselves to support human passengers, much less than the 7 man crew of a space shuttle.[/b] [Edited on 01.05.2013 8:46 PM PST]
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Scrubbers recycle the carbon dioxide breathed out and turn it back into breathable oxygen. [Edited on 01.05.2013 8:51 PM PST]
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I've always wondered about that.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ansac11 You do realize that even though trees produce oxygen, [b]they don't produce enough breathable air by themselves to support human passengers, much less than the 7 man crew of a space shuttle.[/b][/quote] You have an excellent sense of sarcasm, congratulations!
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they fill school-bus's full of the stuff and shoot them to ISS
