How do we get an astronaut warm?
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Er... I know how to get him hot!... ;)\n\nBut seriously check the link below
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I think of astronauts.
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1. Drink a lot of water\n2.Try to stay in A/C or under the shadows areas\n3. Wear light clothing\n4. Activities such as outdoors are better before 11am and after 4pm, that's when the heat is low during the day\n5. Eat foods rich in liquids such fruits, salads, etc
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yea,jump out of the cockpit.\npull the ripcord.\nsee the 60 plus size underwear take shape.\nglide toward earth while on the seat of your pants.\nhope the shit don't hit ya,on the way down!!!\n                God Bless
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Blankets!  I can't stress that enough.  When you are just sitting or lying there looking up, you can get really cold really fast.  Dress warmer than you think you need to, and bring more blankets than you think you need to.\n\nAlso, I'd bring hot chocolate or hot apple cider, or some other hot drink your family enjoys.  Yummy munchies are good, too.
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How to Become an Astronaut 101 \nLt. Col. Cady Coleman talks about what it's like to be an astronaut and how a passion for high school chemistry led her to become one. \n\nTo the average person, words and phrases like polymer synthesis and olefin metathesis reaction represent little more than good Scrabble scores. \n\nBut to Lt. Col. Catherine G. "Cady" Coleman, they mean so much more, and her interest in what these words mean has opened up to her, quite literally, a new universe. Using her passion and talent for chemistry and engineering, Coleman has made her way up the ranks from inspired student to research chemist to NASA astronaut. \n\n"The biggest challenge about being involved in the space program is the need to be able to be good at and know a lot about a lot of things." \nHer journey began in high school, under the tutelage of an especially enthusiastic chemistry teacher, Mrs. Ruth Opp. \n\n"She passed her excitement on to me," Coleman says. "I discovered later that many things she talked about I didn't really understand at the time, but she made me want to know more." \n\nColeman says her luck with wonderful teachers continued into college. While attending the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she was fortunate enough to study under Dr. George Whitesides. \n\n"He was an incredible lecturer and scholar," she says. "I credit my teachers for giving me my enthusiasm for chemistry." \n\n \nCady Coleman handles a tiny mouse ear plant on Columbia's flight deck during the STS-93 shuttle mission. The plant experiment was part of the Plant Growth Investigations in Microgravity. \nColeman continued her studies at the University of Massachusetts, where she earned a doctorate in polymer science and engineering. It is an interdisciplinary field and allowed Coleman to focus on the chemistry of making polymers and the integral processes used to discover why they do what they do. \n\nA polymer is a chain of molecules, which Coleman describes as being similar to a string of spaghetti. Commonly known polymers are plastics, hair and fibers, like cotton and silk. It is interesting to make chemical reactions using polymers because it involves the chemistry of a long chain of bead-like molecules rather than individual molecules that are free to move around and react in any direction, she says. \n\n"It is the processing that fascinates me," Coleman says. "It's like when you used to try and make fudge when you were a kid. Each time you would try to make it, you would put the same set of ingredients together. Yet, one time you get fudge that is all granular and crunchy, and the next it is a soupy mess that won't solidify. It all has to do with the processing -- how you put the ingredients together, the baking time, the way you mixed it up. I always wanted to know how the differences could happen." \n\nHer interest in processing contributed to her interest in the space program, although she says she did not always know she wanted to be an astronaut. \n\n"Being an astronaut wasn't really a common occupation when I was a kid," Coleman says. "I didn't think about it until I was in college, and Sally Ride came to speak at MIT. Listening to her, I thought wow, I want that job! I wanted adventure in my life." \n\n"This is where my training as a scientist really came in handy. …You need to go up there and do your best." \nColeman entered active duty in the Air Force upon her graduation from the University of Massachusetts. She began her commission working as a research chemist at the Materials Directorate of the Wright Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. She continued her research on polymers and how they can be used in different computer applications, such as data storage. \n\nColeman was selected by NASA in March 1992 to become an astronaut. Her adventure really began in earnest then, and her kn
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whoissarthak's idea works, but that isn't a wet suit; that's a dry suit.  A wet suit works differently.  The idea is that there are basically three ways to move heat: conduction, radiation, and convection.  Conduction is when two things are in direct contact, like touching a hot stove or a cold flagpole.  Radiation has to do with the infrared light emited by warm bodies, and has nothing much to do with your project.  Convection is the real concern--it is the transfer of heat by means of a fluid intermediate, and it is the fast form of heat loss.\n\nYou're body sheds heat by means of perspiration, where sweat evaporates and takes heat away with it--that's convection.  When you fell colder in a strong breexe, that's convection taking heat away quicker.  When you blow on a spoon of hot soup to cool it, that's convection.\n\nThe way a wetsuit works is by not allowing the water in contact with the skin to be carried away.  It inhibits the movement of water through it.  Enough gets in to contact the skin and make your skin wet, which is why they call it a wetsuit, but that water doesn't leave easily.  It stays put and your body heats up the water.  Hence, the water in your wetsuit is much warmer than the water in the surrounding ocean, so the water taking heat from your skin is not quickly carried away and replaced by more cold water.\n\nIf you want to make a wetsuit, you want something htat will make it difficult (but not impossible) for water to come and go.
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Empty space itself cannot have a temperature, unless you mean some\nabstruse question about quantum vacuums.\n\nHowever, if you put a physical object into space, it will reach a\ntemperature that depends on how efficiently it absorbs and emits\nradiation and on what heating sources are nearby.  For example, an\nobject that both absorbs and emits perfectly, put at the Earth's\ndistance from the Sun, will reach a temperature of about 280 K or 7 C.\nIf it is shielded from the Sun but exposed to interplanetary and\ninterstellar radiation, it reaches about 5 K.  If it were far from all\nstars and galaxies, it would come into equilibrium with the microwave\nbackground at about 2.7 K.\n\nSpacecraft (and spacewalking astronauts) often run a bit hotter than\n280 K because they generate internal energy.  Arranging for them to\nrun at the desired temperature is an important aspect of design.\n\nSome people also consider the "temperature" of high energy particles\nlike the solar wind or cosmic rays or the outer parts of the Earth's\natmosphere.  These particles are not in thermal equilibrium, so it's\nnot correct to speak of a single temperature for them, but their\nenergies correspond to temperatures of thousands of kelvins or higher.\nGenerally speaking, these particles are too tenuous to affect the\ntemperature of macroscopic objects.  There simply aren't enough\nparticles around to transfer much energy.  (It's the same on the\nground.  There are cosmic rays going through your body all the time,\nbut there aren't enough to keep you warm if the air is cold.  The air\nat the Earth's surface is dense enough to transfer plenty of heat to\nor from your body.)
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Depends on which era.  On Gemini the missions were short and they did it in their space suits.  I'm not sure on Apollo.  I had the privilege to work for a while with Dale Gardner, who rode on the shuttle. He said on the shuttle they did it on a toilet that sucked the stuff with a vacuum.  He was funny.  He said that feeling that blast of cold air really made it hard to do your business!
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How will you keep warm?\nIt will be lonely without other people, including women.\nYou need to work on modular housing for atmospheric-interior pressure differentials.\nYou need to know where the water is located and how to get a handle on it.\nYou need energy source(s).\nYou need entirely new clothing and suit for outdoors.\nYou need a food supply and a plan for replenishment.\nWhat is most valuable or needed will not be known for sure until people gain experience by living there.\nLots of people will also need a Doctor/Surgeon.\nYou will need to visit Finland first.\nYou will need to know sub-surface temperatures, have a piping engineer, a construction engineer (specialized).\nShould you live underground? How far? What about meteorites?\nHow best to make use of existing terrain? Needs a very old geologist with lots of experience everywhere.\nWhat about people who become criminals or go nuts? You need to be able to send them back to earth...the alternatives are not pretty.\nYou need lots of energy-efficient bio-friendly lighting, especially to avoid depression.\nSame for plants -- which ones? Some colorful veggies and flowers, for sure.\nSo you will also need gardeners, horticulturist.\nYou will need excavating equipment that operates in this environment.\nWhat kind of transportation is best for Mars??????\n\nJust a start, but if you do not think of these things first, you will have trapped yourself in a place worse than Earth, though that may be hard to imagine until you consider the matter.\n\nShould weapons be allowed or banned?\nHow will the community be governed?\nDemocracy would apply to some things, in other cases the person who knows must be dictator, lest unforgiving mistakes result.\n\nMany things we take for granted here will need constant monitoring. More recycling necessary, less garbage.\n\nWhat about long distance transport, need aircraft adapted to Martian atmospheric conditions.\n\nThis all has to grow for many, many years before it will approach self-sustaining. Meanwhile, without planet Earth to call on for help...\n\nVisit Biosphere and Antarctica before you decide
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Walking, or any other form of non-airborne locomotion - you'd have to swim through the air\n\nCooking would be a bit complicated, everything would have to be contained. And forget a bowl of cereal.  Solid food would have to be in chunks, liquids in a pouch.\n\nCleaning up afterwards would be tough - how do you keep the hot soapy water in the sink?\n\nThink of all the things that would have to be restained from floating around as you go about your daily business.\n\nSleeping might be a bit more comfortable though, as long as you're tethered so you don't bump into walls all night long.\n\nAll in all, it would be similiar to life aboard a non-rotating space station.
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I'm not sure but it should involve a space suit and explosive decompression like in space.\n\nLike, say something like, "here's me in earth's normal atmosphere". Find a fat girl dressed Identically and say "Here's me one second before explosive decompression in space".
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the temperature of space is pretty close to zero Kelvin (-273 C)\n\nthat is due to the lack of substance to create energy.\n\nHeat, or lack of heat, is transferred by substances like air or water or metal.  No air = no transfer of cold or heat from space to the ship.  The ship's outer hull actually is hot where the sun shines on it and very cold on the shady side.  It's just really well insulated.\n\nIf spaceships were in -273 C air, then it would freeze solid (mostly because the air would freeze too)
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put a heating pad on it, or use icy hot.
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During reentry, the temperature is approximately 4,000 k on the surface of the heat shields.  Inside the capsule, the temperature remains around 35-40 degrees Celsius.  Any hotter, and the astronauts would cook.  For manned space flight, we generally use just the space shuttle.  The idea is that it would be cheaper to have a reusable ship rather than having these big rocket boosters that were good for only one trip.  As it turned out, it's actually cheaper to use the one time rockets anyway, which is why NASA is looking to replace the shuttle with something more cost efficient.  For simple matters like sending satellites into space, they use unmanned rockets that shoot up, release the satellite, then burn up on reentry.
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Well the real source partly depends on the distance, storage\n  is the prime mathematical puzzle.  Second the actual use is\n  partnered to the amount of crew, sustenance is also critical.\n  You must bring a full cooking, refrigeration and resting system.\n   Air conditioning must be generated from a living source and \n   all temperature controls must be foolproof.  Also fashions and\n   apparel must be properly designed for easy breathing, and\n   light work loads, as well as social family property.  The ship is\n   going to be 2500 square feet like a house for each 5 people if\n   the flight is more than a year, only 25% is minimum required \n   for very short flights of 30 days or so.  The hull is to be in one\n   of two schools of construction one is vulcan iron class 20 to 24\n   and wave complimentary to aluminum mound glass steels of\n  value 10-15 this combination 20 plus to 45 major supports is\n  within the demands of holding the shell in tact.  The shell and\n   air, heat, materials living quarters must be of titanium plus or\n   recent magnettetrox romulean proportionates making it simular\n   to greenhouses, and storage systems on the planet.  This will \n   assure comprehensions of weight that are acceptable to the\n   active mind.  Sensor adjustment equipment now will help to \n   simulate pleasant environments to help stabilize nerve status\n   and give a standstill effect on the working crews, + socializers.\n   Then we enter complexities of duties, many various engines,\n   support equipments, farm equipments, mining, teaching, radar,\n   home signal must be brought and protected in a shielded room\n   of neutroniums that is like highway supply store for good steady\n   storage prime objectives.  Rugs would be live skin treated for\n   environment niceties of simulations of heavenly fields, beaches,\n  and so on.  Many fine points in that area would be recommends.\n   Engines would be photon class that could recycle air, add heat,\n   all momentums at 30 milliion miles a day high speed.  Now the\n   distance of any known star would be within the map systems.\n   Also I would want MTV, sirius, and maybe a music studio. The\n   shuttle is very like the fleet ships, please take a look.  There \n   would have to be a 6 month orientation class to get ready.
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Warm or cold if I am in a hurry.