sentence: Simulations often use computers or television.
sentences_before: Simulations are very useful all over the world, because in a simulation things can be controlled that might not be easy to control in real life. They can use or smaller versions of an object or system for testing or practice. They can often use smaller versions of things, like space ships or rooms, to simulate the real thing. They can also use a safer thing in place of a thing that is dangerous, like when astronauts practice in a swimming pool rather than in outer space. Astronauts also practice in simulations of the moon before they went and landed there, and in simulations of spaceships that move the way real spaceships do, so they can get used to it.
sentences_after: Computers are used to make simulations of what a spaceship's route might be on the way to the moon, to help plan the mission.
concept_name: simulation
headings: Simulation
categories: Research Scientific modeling