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What's Outer Space like?
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What's Outer Space like?

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Weightlessness Vacuum Vision Thermal Environment Radiation
  01 Don't Go Outside without Your Spacesuit.
02 What happens in a vacuum?

02 What happens in a vacuum?

The room not a vacuum

What if all of the air disappeared from the room and it became a vacuum? We would not be able to breathe, right? Let's think about what other changes might occur.

Starting the Vacuum Pump
If the room became a vacuum
   
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