How many hours to get to outer space?

Answer 1

This depends on how fast you are going first of all, so if we just assume you are travelling in a space shuttle, that travels at 17,500 miles per hour (about mach 11-12) we take that and divide how many miles Earth's atmosphere is. Seeing as how Earth's atmosphere is only 300 miles thick, if we round to the nearest thousandth of a second it will take around 1.02 minutes to fully exit the atmosphere and reach outer space.

Answer 2

It takes approximately 10 minutes to reach outer space from the Earth's surface in a spacecraft traveling at escape velocity, which is about 25,000 miles per hour. This means it would take less than an hour to travel to outer space at this speed.