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It takes eight and one-half minutes for the Space Shuttle to reach a low Earth orbit. How long an orbit takes depends on 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 ...
... for ferrying astronauts and equipment to the Space Station and back again. Between an orbiting hotel and the Moon, which is about 236,000 miles from Earth, it would take a matter of days ... scale of the solar system It would take a spacecraft about nine months to get to Mars. The inner planets such as Mercury and Venus would also take less than a year to reach. The outer planets ...
Getting acclimated to space really varies with the individual and the amount and kind of training each has had. I believe that it was a testament to my training that after just a day in space, I fully adapted to weightlessness.
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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 ... , launched in October of 1989, finally arrived at Jupiter in December of 1995, taking well over six years to arrive.
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... it takes to travel to the Moon is largely a function of the amount of energy used to leave an orbit around the Earth. It could vary from two or three days to longer depending on the transfer orbit ... taking closer to a week may be more realistic, with Space Station stops. There are some rocket motors, called ion engines, which accelerate very, very slowly (but constantly) and take a long time to get ...
... where the Earth's atmosphere ceases to become a factor. It took SpaceShipOne 60 minutes to get into space. This involved a stage where a plane carried the spacecraft to a height of 52,480 feet ... very different question, but the short answer would be that the journey would take a very, very long time—a far longer time than there have been humans on the Earth ... has not had time to reach us yet There are many things about the Universe that we still do not understand, and its shape is one of them. It is even possible that ...
... the Space Shuttle, it takes about eight and a half minutes to get into space to a point where they will jettison the external fuel tank and be in a continuous free fall orbit around the Earth.
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... the time it would take to reach the other planets. But assuming current methods and the basics of trajectory design it would take about nine months to get to Mars, the nearest planet. To reach Mercury it would take 6 months ... by Hazel McAndrews
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To an orbiting hotel or private space station , This would, of course depend on how far away from Earth, or in what orbit, the hotel or space station was. Most private space companies would ... space station in a relatively low orbit so visitors and supplies would not have to travel too long to reach it. In that case it would take about the same time to reach as the ISS— about ...
When using the ISS or Shuttle telephone, it does not take much longer to make a connection than it does here on Earth. Connections are not a problem. The ground controllers are in constant communication& ... ; with the exception of some short periods of time—and whenever the astronaut wants to talk to the ground, he says something like "Houston, Discovery" and Houston answers "Discovery, Houston" and ...
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