How long does it take to circle the earth in a spaceship?

Answer 1

A typical NASA launch achieves orbit sometime in the 8-12 minute range. If you weren't worried about orbit (which requires a lot of horizontal speed) and just went straight up, at an acceleration of only 1g you could reach 100 km altitude, which is the usual (somewhat arbitrary) definition of where "space" begins, in about two minutes twenty seconds. This is also about how long it would take you to fall from 100 km and go splat if we ignore air resistance (if we're ignoring air resistance, you will go splat, a parachute won't help).

If you're climbing a ladder, it's going to take a bitlonger than that.

Answer 2

It will be as long as it needs to be to accomplish the goals set by the designers. So far, real "space ships" have been pretty small; the now-retired Space Shuttles were the size of a small airliner, with a length of 185 feet (not counting the external fuel tank or the solid rocket boosters).

Future spaceships are likely to be far larger, because they will need to carry enough mass to sustain the crew for the duration of the mission. For example, a nuclear-powered "Orion"-style spacecraft would likely be thousands of feet long, just to provide some distance between the nuclear explosions and the crew cabins.

Answer 3

NASA began building a spaceship to travel to the moon in earnest in 1961. They successfully landed it 8 years later, in 1969.

The Russians decided to launch a satellite into orbit some time in the mid 1950s, and Sputnik orbited the earth just a year or two later, October 4th, 1957. A few months later the Soviets orbited a dog, in what would then be perhaps the first space ship.

How long it takes depends upon the resources both available and committed, and what the specific goals are.

Answer 4

Are you driving or walking? If driving and assuming 60 km/h, then a long time. If walking, then it will take A LONG time. And if you're waiting for something from the public transit authority, you may actually never get here.

Answer 5

from where. This question really depends on how far and how fast something is moving towards the earth for you to determin how long it will take.

Gravity's speed is 10meters/s^2 depending on the object it would either burn up in the atmosphere or atleast have it's speed hindered by that.

Google it first please :D

Answer 6

At a rate of 17,500 mph, the speed required for a space craft to remain in orbit, it would take 12.74 seconds to travel the 62.1 mile distance from sea level to the closest edge of outer space.

Answer 7

That depends on what kind of route the spacecraft takes, and how fast it flies.

No space vehicle ever travels in a straight line once it leaves earth. But in order to figure an answer

to the question, and since a straight line is the shortest possible route to get where you're going,

let's assume that our ship could travel in a straight line to the sun.

The distance it has to cover is roughly 93 million miles. The time it takes depends on the speed.

-- If it travels at the speed of light, it takes a little over 8 minutes to reach the sun.

-- If it travels at 1 million miles an hour, it passes the moon in 14 minutes, and arrives

at the sun in a little under 4 days.

-- If it travels at 60 miles per hour in order to avoid speeding tickets, it needs about 177 years

to reach the sun.

Answer 8

According to NASA, space begins about 100 km above the surface of the earth, where the atmosphere is considered to be null.

The space shuttle takes about 8 minutes.

Answer 9

The space shuttle and International Space Station take 90 minutes to orbit the earth.

Answer 10

she stayed in space for 8 days or... 190 hours 30 minutes and 23 seconds!