10. How long would it take to travel into space? (A K2S Question)
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If you are speaking about astronauts traveling on 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.
Answer provided by Jim Zebrowski
Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer
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