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Bhutan Baby: Travelling to the Moon - An Essay for School
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Travelling to the Moon - An Essay for School
Travelling to the moon was once considered science fiction, but now people can be sent to the moon by spaceships. Spacesuits help a lot in outer space, too: They have a pressurized atmosphere They give oxygen and remove carbon dioxide They keep a comfortable temperature They protect from micro-meteoroids and radiation They allow to see clearly and move easily inside the spacecraft. They also help communicate with other astronauts and some can even communicate with Earth! The moon has 6 times less gravity than earth, so objects and people can float on the moon. The moon doesn't have oxygen either, so astronauts have to take air balloons with them. In the spaceship, things are kept in safe places as to keep them in place. A 100 kg weight on earth would weigh less than 17 kg on the moon! One of the first living things sent to the moon, Laika, was a dog sent to outer space by Russia, died after 4 hours in the spacecraft. Laika was a street dog before her sending to outer space. She was trained to sit in a spacecraft and to be used to loud noises that the spaceship's engine made. The Russians, at that time competing with America, wanted to experiment sending an animal to an orbit with earth. First the Russians claimed that Laika had lived for 3 days inside the spaceship, but 45 years later they admitted that she had survived for only 4 hours. This raised a protest on animal cruelty among the Russians. The moon has no water of its own, so astronauts have to take their own water.

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