The wall around the outside of international space station that protects it from the vacuum of space and meteroids.does anyone know exactly what it is made of
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Krunal from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
Do you believe in that the design of the ISS will cause a problem in case of a meteor shower? Why?
That's a really good question. The space environment is a very harsh environment: there's radiation and micrometeorite strikes, and other things in the environment that cause it to be very hazardous. So, one of the things that we've designed the space station for is to protect the astronauts against micrometeorite striking the outer shell of the space station. Now, in doing so, the basic design philosophy of the pressurized modules has been to develop an inner shell, which contains the pr READ THE REST ON THE LINK ON THE WEBSITE
Krunal from Bensalem, Pennsylvania
Do you believe in that the design of the ISS will cause a problem in case of a meteor shower? Why?
That's a really good question. The space environment is a very harsh environment: there's radiation and micrometeorite strikes, and other things in the environment that cause it to be very hazardous. So, one of the things that we've designed the space station for is to protect the astronauts against micrometeorite striking the outer shell of the space station. Now, in doing so, the basic design philosophy of the pressurized modules has been to develop an inner shell, which contains the pr READ THE REST ON THE LINK ON THE WEBSITE