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Typical Shuttle flights last about ten days. Extended duration missions began in 1992 when the orbiter Columbia, outfitted with extended duration orbiter (EDO) hardware carrying up additional oxygen supplies, embarked on the longest Shuttle flight to date at that time, Mission STS-50. Endeavour later became the second orbiter in the fleet to be outfitted with EDO hardware for longer flights. Extended duration flights initially lasted ...
The Shuttle orbits the Earth every hour and a half.
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Answer provided by Jon H. Brown
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... -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 ... day to orbit around the Earth. So a satellite in this orbit travels around the planet at the same rate that the planet is spinning To return to Earth, it takes the Shuttle about one hour ...
... 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 ...
The time it takes to travel from any point in space to another point is completely dependent upon the form of propulsion used. For astronauts these days the Shuttle is used. This fires liquid propellant from nozzles and can increase its speed by small amounts but this is only suitable for ferrying astronauts and equipment to the Space ... much greater—for instance the Earth and Mars are on average about 62 million miles apart. This is a small distance in terms of the scale of the solar system It would take ...
... a few days depending on the destination orbit. This is not the fastest time possible, but time needs to be allowed for the space tourists to become accustomed to the environment, particularly weightlessness. ... is all in the future when scientists have developed a way to stop the human body from degrading in the weightless environment. This is the main limitation to safe, long-duration human ...
... is nothing to hold you to the ground. You could have drawers on the ceiling and they would be just as easy to reach as a cabinet on the floor because you could simply float to whatever you need. Each person's body is a little different in terms of the time it takes to ... Dana S. Klein & D. Brooke Owens
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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 March of 1979, thus traveling for a year and six months. The Pioneer ... provided by Laura Peckyno & Robert Peckyno
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... . All water used by astronauts on a mission or on the Space Station is carried there from the Earth on board our spacecraft. The average cost of carrying water up from the Earth's surface to low ... we do accurately confirm the presence of water ice on the Moon, and develop effective mining and refining techniques, we may be able to transport the same quart of water from the Moon to low ...
... and the Shuttle reach altitudes of 250 miles or higher in a few minutes.
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Answer provided by Robert P. McCoy, Ph.D.
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