2006-08-26 20:09:52 · 6 answers · asked by Freddie 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
not too long at all
2006-08-26 20:12:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it looks like Lee F. is right, I checked against the distance travelled for STS-71 (6.6 million kilometers in 9 days, 9 hours and change, see (1.) below)
This is roughly 3% of 150,000,000 miles, and the math from there is obvious.
For further fun check out this orbital velocity calculator at NASA. (2.) Plug in the orbital height & see how fast the shuttle, or anything else, has to go to stay in orbit.
2006-08-27 04:07:17 · answer #2 · answered by wm_omnibus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
t depends on the speed of the Shuttle. Let us assume that it orbits the Earth at 18,000 miles per hour. You divide 18,000 miles per hour into 150 million miles. You get 8,333 hours. With 24 hours in a day - you get 347 days, which is getting close to a year-!
2006-08-27 03:16:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The shuttle has to reach 25,000 mph to break away from the Earth's gravity. So in 10 hours it would travel 250,000 miles, in 100 hours, it would travel 2,500,000 miles.
2006-08-27 03:19:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
50 years.
2006-08-27 03:23:25 · answer #5 · answered by Redeemer 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on its speed.
2006-08-27 03:16:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋