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The Moon is the farthest destination thus far reached by astronauts.
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Answer provided by Col. USAF (Ret.) Rick Searfoss
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None of today's astronauts has been any higher than LEO orbit, at about 250 miles altitude, and they go ...
... astronomers agree that there is a great swarm of comets around our solar system. The far edge of this is about one light year, or six trillion miles away.
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... doesn't really have any meaning, as alternate universes, if they exist, are outside our definitions of space. Look at the middle of a piece of paper. How far is it from one side of the paper to the other? The sides of the paper are the thickness of the paper apart, but you would have to travel about eight ... other side. Now, try to imagine that the paper is a mile across. You have to travel a lot further to get to place that is a fraction of an inch away ...
In the first 50 years since the start of the space age, mankind got as far as the Moon. Now plans are taking place for a journey to Mars maybe by ... . Each generation takes the human race farther. I wonder where your own children will be traveling—even beyond Mars?
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... away from the Sun. And the time it would take us to travel there depends on how fast we travel and how direct our route is. It would take us at least several years ...
... it can eventually go right outside of the solar system, and the only problem is having enough power to keep on going. Nuclear generators are best for very long journeys where ... supply enough food, water and oxygen for them to breathe, and people are figuring out how to do this in preparation for the Mars missions.
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... such high speeds, they can get surprisingly close to heavy gravity. The Galileo space probe traveled 35 orbits around Jupiter, about once every two months, coming as close as 112,000 ...
... feel comfortable in high-flying airplanes and even higher- flying spaceships. Did you know the astronauts have special heaters in their gloves to keep their fingertips from freezing in space?
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... , our speed will pick up because we will not have any air friction to slow us down. Our speed will depend on how much thrust our rocket has at that point. And ... go. In order to stay in space and circle the Earth, the Space Shuttle must travel at least 17,000 mph. The exact number depends on many things, but that is ...
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