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Target: Grades 5-8
Length: 20 minutes 55 seconds
This program answers basic questions about spaceflight including: how spacecraft travel into space and remain in orbit; why astronauts float in space; and how spacecraft return to Earth. Viewers learn how English scientist Isaac Newton formulated the basic science behind Earth orbit more than three hundred years ago.
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