10. How long would it take to travel into space? (A K2S Question)
From The Space Library
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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