how can i travel to the sun?

Answer 1

Even if you had millions of dollars there's probably not a good, legal way to get there.
Some ideas for illegal ways would be somewhere along the lines of stowing away (with a gun) on either a Space Shuttle flight or a Russian Rocket flight and then attempt to hijack the ship once in orbit. There are still lots of problems with these ideas though, not the least of which being that they are just about impossible due to security measures at the launch sites.
THEN of course there's the whole problem of convincing one of the astronauts that it's somehow a better choice to fly the ship to the Sun instead of just taking the chance of getting shot by you.
Or perhaps you could somehow get enough training to operate the controls of the ship after you've incapacitated the crew. Let's go with that one. Ok, you get the ship out of orbit and pointed at the Sun as best you can and fire all the engines until you run out of fuel. I don't really know how long that would be but a wild guess is that you would run out of fuel in less than 30 minutes (this is a wild guess but probably not too wild). Ok, great, now you are headed toward your destination (the Sun) at about 40,000 miles per hour. The Sun is about 93 million miles away so that would take about 2325 hours (please check my math on that one, I was never good with math) or about 3 months. Assuming you are now the only person on board who is using the water and food rations, and assuming you don't mind skipping a few meals, you could probably make it before you starve to death.
At this point, the heat is way too intense for (we'll just call it YOUR ship now) your ship and you are most likely caught in the Sun's gravity well and will be pulled in to the Sun. I won't even talk about the radiation poisoning that you would experience on the way, but you would get to the Sun alive or dead.
So yeah, unless you have Bill Gates kind of money and plan to create a company to build rockets that will eventually be able to shoot you to a fiery death at the Sun, then you might want to consider just trying to get into Nasa's astronaut program.
Oh yeah, and it would probably be a good idea to leave this yahoo answer OFF of your resume.
Seriously though, becoming an astronaut is a great goal to shoot for if you are really interested, but I imagine it's a little like pro-sports in that you might want to have a fall-back plan... say, the air-force or something.

Answer 2

First you get a lot of wood boards.

Then you cut them to the right size.

Then you begin nailing and screwing them
together to form a ladder.

When you run out of boards and nails and screws,
go back and get more.

Continue the process until you can't stand the extreme cold of outer space, or run out of the energy needed to climb up the ladder carrying nails, screws, and more boards.

At some point the ladder may begin to sway back and forth somewhat. Then you will need to install some guy ropes from places on the ladder down to secure points around the base of the ladder.

Ten or twenty trips up and down the ladder will convince you that some kind of safety belt might be a good idea. So you probably ought to get one of those.

I would also recommend a platform be built part way up the ladder for human waste needs, and possibly a snack bar. It wouldn't make much sense to go all the way back down the ladder to use the bathroom or get lunch.

Surface temperatures on the surface of the Sun are 10,000 Degrees F. So you will certainly need a good pair of sun glasses and an air conditioner with a really long power cord.
The last time I looked my Astronomy book said that the Sun was 93,000,000 Miles away so you had better plan on cutting a lot of wood for this ladder.

Good luck

Answer 3

The sun IS brighter in the winter because the Earth's orbit around the sun is not a perfect circle but an elipse with the sun at one focus. The Earth is closest to the sun on ~January 5th, so the sun will be brightest on and around that day. However, this has nothing to do with the march of the seasons, which are due to the angle of the sun above the horizon. Due to the tilt of the Earth's axis compared to the orbital plane, The sun is nearly overhead at noon in late spring and summer, but it is very low in the sky even at noon in the winter. If you don't believe me just check out the length of your shadow at ~1:00PM Daylight saving time now, and then do the same at 12:00 noon in late November or December-January and you will see what I mean. The lower sun angle means colder temperatures, regardless of where the sun is in its orbit.

Answer 4

Lucky day for you, the Perihelion is coming up soon (January 2008) and that's the closest that the Earth gets to the Sun. It should be only 91 million miles away. But I wouldn't advise getting any closer than that, I don't think you want that much of a tan.

Answer 5

You not only need to go the 7 miles per second needed to escape the earth's gravity, but another 18 miles per second to kill your obital velocity around the sun. That's the most energy efficient way, but it would still take a month to fall into the sun and burn up. A faster trip would require even more speed.

Answer 6

No one can travel to Sun, or cant even go close to it...No physical body in the Universe can be in the solid form near the Sun, they go to the gaseous state...so practically every thing will be in the gaseous state near the Sun...

Answer 7

Just label your school as the SUN. Then, go to school. In that way, you can go to the "sun."

Answer 8

Take the bus. The codeword for sun is "asylum". Ask to be taken there.

Answer 9

it's not possible yet, as anything would burn once it gets too close to the sun. The heat is just too intense.

Answer 10

if you have a super heat insulator and a unmeltable space craft , then you are ready for the mission to the sun