how long would it take a space shuttle to get 4 billion light-years away?

Answer 1

This is a really screwy way to answer someone's question,
but the answser is "never." The space "shuttle" was only designed to fly from the surface of the earth to the orbiting space station and back. It was never intended nor designed for long distance space travel.

A rocket ship equipped with a space "capsule" could go into outer space for long periods of time, but nothing made in the world today will last (operate) for four billion years. So, even if the shuttle or a space ship was to start the trip, something would run out, break down, deteriorate, freeze up, or burn out on a four billion year trip. Now, the last part of your question has to do with Light Years...No man made assembly has ever been accelerated to a velocity much more than 40,000 - 50,000 miles per hour. That speed is no where close to 186,000 miles per second which is the speed of light. So the final answer to your question is Never, Never happen.

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Zah

Answer 2

Why 4 billion light years? What is the significance?

You do of course realise that in realitym space shuttles can get no further than Earth orbit.

It's all a matter of fuel. To get men to the moon, we needed the giant Apollo rocket to carry enough fuel to do the extra burn required to leave Earth orbit.

The bigger the rocket the more fuel required, therefore you need a bigger rocket, and so on.

The answer is to build a station on the moon where you can ultimately build your interplanetary rocket. Because the moon's gravity is so much less than Earth, you do not need a rocket so large.

So, that is why we need a moon base to get to Mars.

Even then, we could not burn to Mars. You still have to simply burn into a trajectory that uses the motion of the Earth to slingshot into Mars orbit. That's because while you are in the Solar System, you are fighting the Sun's gravity - you cannot go straight from A to B without burning fuel all the way against the sun's gravity. The way it is done is to proceed with short burns that utilise planet's gravity to swing from planet to planet.

So, you see, yours is a mute question. Firstly the Earth's gravity is too much for a shuttle to break away from, and secondly, even if it did break away, it has not got the power to get out of the Solar System.

Answer 3

It depends on how fast your space shuttle is moving.

If you can make it go at the speed of light (300 000 000 m/s), then it would take 4 billion years to get there! Anything slower than the speed of light would take longer.

Answer 4

Approx. 4 billion light years

Answer 5

4 billion years if it was traveling at the speed of light. from there, you do the math

Answer 6

Woah, stop accurate there!!!!! First, the area vacation can not even attain area because this is nonetheless in low earth orbit, meaning it remains in our environment. 2d, the area vacation is so heavy (4,474,574 LB), this is 4.5 million pounds holy christ, that it burns up each and each and every of the gas in that huge orange tank only to get to the area station. third, the pastime that President Obama only hava NASA, landing on an asteroid, the nearest of this is 7 million miles away, ought to take 10 months round vacation. we gained't even carry adequate foodstuff, oxygen, and water for that vacation. yet on my own construct a rocket to get to that asteroid. landing on it must be troublesome to on the grounds that an asteroid's gravity is so low that the lander ought to easily leap off. If this is complicated, we are gonna favor to discover some style of warp stress to get there. Cheers!

Answer 7

On the order of forty trillion years.

Answer 8

it never would its being decomissioned in 2010

Answer 9

Fore ever at that speed.