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The North Star, also known as Polaris, is about 400 light years away. If there were a highway from Earth to Polaris with a 75 mile per hour (mph) speed limit, it would take over 30 trillion years to get there ...
... it is important to note that I was trained as a passenger, not as someone expected to take the controls of the Soyuz.
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Answer provided by Dennis Tito
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... how high above the Earth the orbit is. For low Earth orbit (about 200 miles above the Earth) it takes about 90 minutes to complete a full orbit. Some orbits are further away and that means it takes them a longer time to orbit around the Earth. There is ...
... away (apogee). http://www.nasa.gov/worldbook/moon_worldbook.html (See CDROM)
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Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy
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... the spacecraft in which you are traveling. Also the Earth and Mars travel round the Sun at different speeds and are not always aligned, so the distance between them varies. On average it would take about nine months to reach Mars from Earth.
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Answer provided by Hazel McAndrews
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... trip missions last between one and one-half to three years.
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How long it takes to get to a planet depends on what path we take to get there and how fast we are traveling. The Voyager 1 probe, launched in September of 1977, arrived at Jupiter in ... December of 1995, taking well over six years to arrive.
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For the Space Shuttle it takes about three days from the moment the engines ignite at launch to the moment the Shuttle docks with the ISS. It is possible to do it in less time; however, astronauts need the extra time to recover from any motion sickness, and to verify that all on board systems are working properly
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... it would take a very long time to reach the nearest galaxy. Andromeda is two million light years away, which means it takes light (which travels at 186,000 miles per second ) two million years to get there ... makes it possible to travel faster than the speed of light.
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... would be that the journey would take a very, very long time—a far longer time than there have been humans on the Earth We cannot even see the edge of the Universe today as some parts are so far away the light from ...
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