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Live From Space! Lives of Astronauts

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THANK YOU 3000+ SUPPORTERS FOR KEEPING THIS SPACE HABITAT UP!

The spaceman in the red spacesuit would like to thank y'all for keeping this space habitat up in space! More milestones and more spacemen to come!

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Long-term stay in space

Day 1, Day 30, and Day 365...

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May the 4th be with you

The famous scene from Star Wars!
Photo taken inside the present space habitat moc "Live from Space! Lives of Astronauts"
The veil is 74528 (I saw this cool use of the part in the build by @hachiroku24)

I wanted Leia to bend her knees like the real scene in the movie, so the skirt is made of one 3023, two 28192's, and four 3665's.

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Egg hunt in the space station

Happy Easter!




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Compatible with the Lunar Research Base 60350

This idea is compatible with the newly released set 60350 "Lunar Research Base"! Make the slope and connect the airlocks!

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Flower trapped in water droplet in ZeroG!

In future, kids will go to space, film their scientific experiments in microgravity, and post them online!


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Treadmill training in zeroG

Bungee cords keep an astronaut grounded while running in microgravity.
The smart phone LED light through the window made the scene look like the Sun shining on the space station in the earth orbit :-D

Here is the astronaut Sunita Williams running on the treadmill on the International Space Station in April 2007.


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Space Gorilla Prank

6 years ago from today, Astronaut Scott Kelly pulled a prank in the International Space Station by wearing a gorilla suit to surprise his crewmate Tim Peake :-)




The gorilla suit was a gift from Scott's twin brother Mark, who was also an experienced NASA astronaut.





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Solar wings

If a spacesuit had solar panel wings, could they power the suit (about 100 watts)?

Assuming 25% efficiency, the solar panels need to generate 400 watts. In the low Earth orbit (LEO), the flux from the Sun is 1370 W/m2. So the total wing area needed is 0.3 m2. If the adjacent and opposite sides are both 4 feet, the total solar panel area would be 1.5 m2, enough to keep the suit powered, technically!

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Day and Night in Space

In low-Earth orbit, the Sun rises and sets every 90 minutes.
If your spacewalk is 8-hour long, there are 5 night shifts or so!

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