CosmicQuest
Living in Space
Your space station
You need: air, water, food, power, toilet
Instrument panel

A very basic survival need is breathing!

But space is a vacuum—there's simply no air out there! You can only hold your breath for a few minutes—and you wouldn't even be in orbit by that time.

So what will you bring into space to breathe?

Carbon Dioxide: CO2
Carbon Dioxide
Oxygen:  O2
Oxygen

 


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