Can I steal NASA's space shuttle and fly to the sun to have some barbeque bonefire with my friends?

Question

and camp near planet mercury and play soccer in planet venus.. something like that.

Answer 1

There is no "night" time when you go up to space. and also, if you do fly on the sun and have lots of protective anti-heat shields since the sun is too hot, the sun has no real surface at all to land on anyway. You'll probably burn up by the solar flares which is really big. and, camping near mercury? there's no oxygen in space so you cannot survive at all. There's also ultraviolet rays everywhere in the space. Our atmosphere protects us from them. There are too much poisoness gas at venus so you shouldn't even be able to actually live in venus for long. and also, there's no water in any other planet except Earth. so you'll die on every other planet. The only planet that is remotely close to actually having a living organism is mars and that's all. Where did you got that idea to actually do that. and one more thing, it will take you years and years to get to the sun, then mercury then venus also. The sun is 93 million miles away from Earth.

Answer 2

Stealing a space shuttle would be difficult. They are kept under close surveillance, mostly because they are expensive and because if a terrorist managed to set off a fully fueled one, it would make an enormous explosion.

Let's say you can get past the guards. To get it off the ground, not only would you have to steal it, you'd also have to get it to a launch pad, put it in place, fuel it up, attach a fuel tank and two boosters, fuel them up as well, then finally get into the shuttle and, after going through a whole lot of checks to make sure it was all okay to go, take off. Keep in mind this would take dozens of people and several hours, if not days, to do, and would be enormously conspicuous, so your chances of avoiding security for that long are about as good as your chances of winning the lottery twice in a row.

Anyway, if you're good enough at flying it (and chances are you aren't), you'll be able to get into orbit. However, space shuttles do not have enough fuel to get beyond orbit, so you would never be able to get to the Sun, any other planet, or even the Moon.

Okay, let's say you somehow have enough fuel. Maybe you keep blasting more up with stolen russian rockets and refuel in space. In that case, provided you can find a good trajectory, you'll be able to fly to the Sun. However, actually flying right to the Sun's surface would destroy the space shuttle. So instead, you'll have to stay well away from it, somewhere around the orbit of Mercury, and then send someone out in a space suit with a poker and some hot dogs to roast in the Sun's rays. The astronaut will have to be behind some shielding, otherwise he will get cooked as well, but let's say you do that and manage to cook some hot dogs.

After eating the hot dogs, you want to go to Mercury. This is extremely difficult, probably the most difficult part of the entire trip so far. The shuttle requires two main things in order to land: One, an atmosphere to slow it down, and two, a runway to land on. Mercury has neither. You will hit the surface going at mach 10+, and the shuttle will immediately be pulverized and scattered across the mercurian landscape.

Okay, let's say you beat the odds and somehow, miraculously, land the shuttle on Mercury. The next problem is getting back off once your camping trip is over. While Mercury's gravity is rather low, much lower than Earth's, it will still be essentially impossible to lift off, especially in a horizontal position; Mercury has so little atmosphere that even an airplane couldn't take off horizontally on its surface, never mind a space shuttle. So let's say you manage to land vertically, balance the shuttle on its own rockets and fins (no small feat) and then try to take off. Well, even then you won't have enough fuel. And even if you did, the space shuttle can't burn fuel fast enough to lift its own weight, even on Mercury. And even if it could, the fact that the rockets would be right on the ground would mean that the blastoff would immediately destroy the engines and the rest of the shuttle along with them.

Once you've accomplished the impossible many times over and gotten back into orbit around Mercury, you have to land on Venus. This is slightly easier, because although the shuttle will be both fried in the heat of the atmosphere and smashed to pieces when it touches down on ground with no runway, at least there's an atmosphere to slow you down. Once you hit the surface, however, you'll have to go out to play soccer in space suits that cannot withstand the venusian heat or pressure. You would be cooked and squished immediately, space suits or no space suits.

After that, of course, you have the problem of lifting back off from the venusian surface. This presents about the same problems as Mercury does, only worse because the gravity of Venus is quite high, about 85% of Earth's gravity.

Conclusion: This trip is just plain not going to work. But man, was this ever a fun question to answer! :P

Answer 3

I've had the exact same experience and would love to help. My friends and I were best friends as kids and re United just before leaving high school. We were having a sleepover where we shared beds, she randomly started touching my belly and boobs and I let her then we made out and soon our clothes were off. She sucked my nipples, fingereded and licked. I had to rush out of her house next morning because of an emergency and never contacted her since but I think she was a lesbian it bisexual:)

Answer 4

Why not, but whatever you do, make sure you only go to the sun during the night, otherwise it will be too hot. Enjoy yourself and wave at Ireland as you go past on your way...........

Answer 5

Sure dude...freeze-dried hotdogs, mm-mm good. ; )