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What year was the US moon landing broadcast on television?

Television coverage of the landings were broadcast live, so between 1969 and 1972 depending on the mission.


How far into space has the first radio waves traveled?

Since radio WAVES travel at or near the speed of light in space they have traveled the same number of years from broadcast date to the current date, In Example IE: Radio transmitted in 1920 would have gone 90 light years by 2010. How ever there seems to be some question as to how far those waves can travel prior to loss of the ability to detect them. SETI (I THINK) believes that the newest array they have could detect our oldest radio from the 1920s up to or about 50 to 100 light years away. The more sophisticated and sensitive the equipment the weaker the signal you can detect. A radio WAVE is like an expanding ball getting weaker for many reasons as it travels through space. Some signal is "reflected" to other directions from some material, and some material will absorb the waves. However, even a degraded signal that could not be received as a sound radio channel would still give a "SINGLE Freq. Noise" for many more light years. In nature "Single Freq. Noise" does not happen, As far as we know currently. So even if we were or ET was to receive a radio signal that was just "Noise" but on a single frequency, that would mean most likely an advanced or at least tech society had created it.In simple terms, here is how to do the math:light travels around 5.879Trillion Miles in a year. (1LY[lightyear])multiply that by 90, you get 529.1Trillion miles. so our first transmission are roughly that distance away from earth.now, that might seem extremely far... but it really isn't in terms of ET, based on the distance of stars, that only passes a few stars, and who says every star gets life.But as the question asks specifically 'how many' then answering 'a few' is not very illuminating, the following may be the best estimate.As a function of distance, the Gliese star catalog lists the following number of stars. A parsec is 3.26 light years.Distance Number DensityDistance from Sun in parsecsnumber of starsstars/cubic parsec5630.120103280.0781510080.0712021270.0632534960.053 http://www.stellarium.com/nearstar/nearby.htmlSo as our first radio transmissions are now (2011) approaching 90 years old it may be that we have broadcast to 4000 plus stars.


What space mission has traveled farthest into space?

The Voyager 1 space probe. It is currently appx. 108 AU away from the Sun and near the edge of the solar system in a region called the Heliopause. It is moving away at a rate of about 3 AU/year. For comparison, Earth is at a distance of 1 AU from the Sun and Pluto is at a distance of appx. 10 AU from the Sun.


Which year was the space hopper invented?

the space hopper was invented on in the year 1969


How long would it take to go one light year?

Depends on your speed. A light year is the distance light travels in a year. If you traveled slower it would take longer.Depends on the speed you are going.At the speed of light one year.See related question for details of a light yearJust like any other distance, it depends on the speed of travel.-- At the speed of light, radio, x-rays, etc., it takes 1 year.-- At 1 million miles per hour, it takes about 671 years.-- At 60 miles per hour, it takes about 11.2 million years.A light year is the distance that light will travel in one year in a vacuum. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. So, light will travel about 5.8 trillion miles in one year. Now, to answer the question. The answer depends on how fast you are traveling. If you were in a space ship travelling 99.9999% the speed of light, it would take you about a year to travel a light year. Now, there is currently no human-made space craft, that we know of, that can travel that fast. The space shuttle travels at about 17,500 miles per hour. In order for the space shuttle to travel one light year, it would take about 38,262 years.

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