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Asked by oliver samways to Vinita, Kirsty, Col Op, Charlie 🚀, Andrea on 17 Jun 2016.
Question: what will happen if the space station blows up and you cant get your suit on fast enough
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Kirsty Lindsay answered on 17 Jun 2016:
You would die- of explosion, boiling, freezing or suffocation.
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Charles Laing answered on 20 Jun 2016:
Hi oliver samways,
Thankfully this is not something we have had to deal with but yes as Kirsty says it will not be good!
The International Space Station (ISS) is travelling at 175000 mph and so are other satellites and space junk. If a piece were to hit the ISS that would mean big problems and could cause destruction of the Space Station.
As the ISS is orbiting Earth if it were to break up then it would eventually fall back to Earth and burn up… and any unfortunate astronauts included 🙁
Charlie 🚀
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spacefan226 commented on :
How can they control combustion on the ISS? I know they were lighting fires on the ISS as one of the experiments, how do they control it?