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High Life Aims
 - To demonstrate the importance of launch velocity to a rocket's trajectory, and to explain the terms 'orbital velocity' and 'escape velocity'.
- To describe the main characteristics of the US Space Shuttle, and its role as a 'space truck'.
- To show how 'weightlessness' affects all aspects of living and working in space: the problems of eating, drinking, sleeping, washing and keeping fit.
- To show aspects of life on board Russia's ageing space station Mir.
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