saturn travel?

Question

about how long would it take to get to saturn (if it were possible).

Answer 1

The Cassini spacecraft took 7 years. Launched in 1997 it arrived in 2004. Although Saturn is 1.5 billion kilometres away, Cassini travelled 3.5 billion kilometres on a complex flight path that took it past Venus in 1998 and 1999, Earth again in 1999, and Jupiter in 2000.

Answer 2

This is not a question that is easily answered unless all involved factors are placed into the equation...

Such a long trip would most likely be staged at the space station and the final launch would take place from there...
Include hopw much of this staging time?

To save on fuel requirements, some close passes by other planets might be worthwhile to speed up overall flight speed - sling shot effect. So, the flight might not be a straight line of travel from here to there, and the velocity of the space craft might change significantly as it looped past one or more planets.

The best estimate I could provide is 6 - 8 months staging and preparation, 40 months flight to travel to Saturn's approximate area, no landing on Saturn is possible, 40 months return flight to Earth, 5 - 10 days preparation/inspection for landing and actual landing on Earth. Elapsed time = Estimated 88 Months (7 Years 4 Months) +.

Finding people who can withstand being locked up in a cage with no release for 7 1/2 years will be a real challenge if you are talking about manned flight space travel to Saturn. Caution: The planet Saturn is encircled with regions of debris. The element of accidental collision with some or any of this debris is very real and would end an otherwise successful mission in disaster quite easily.

Answer 3

The question is a bit vague, since you don't indicate whether you mean a manned spacecraft or a robot probe. Mostly it depends on what path you take and how fast you go; the Voyager probes were able to do it in about 38 months traveling at about 17km (~10 miles) a second.

Since robot probes have been there (we've even landed one on Saturn's moon Titan), I'd have to go with the idea that it's possible!