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Approximately 17,000 miles per hour
We just watched the space shuttle launch from Largo, Florida. It's 138 miles away and we saw it very well in early twilight.
The closest is about 3 miles away if you are family to the astronauts. Other than that you can view it from the vistor complex at KSC or along the beaches.
A normal space shuttle launch is 8-1/2 minutes long. The Solid Rocket Boosters separate at 24 nautical miles (45 km) two minutes into the flight.
Of coarse the space shuttle begins launch at zero miles per hour but after about 8 seconds it is going about 100 mph (161 kph) 17 seconds into the launch it's going about 341 mph (549 kph)! Within 10 minutes it will be in orbit traveling about 17,500 mph (28,164 kph).
For safety reasons, including the noise and the possibility of a launch pad disaster. Also, debris is spread over a wide area.
That depends on how good your eye-sight is. How far can you see? ^Very funny. But seriously, I remember seeing the shuttle launch once when I was a kid growing up in N. Carolina, which must have been at least 500 miles from Cape Canaveral. ^^In that case at least 500 miles! ^^^uk sucks.
The shuttle and launch platform are moved from the Vehicle Assembly Building by the crawler transporter. the CT is a large tracked vehicle that goes under the MLP and picks it up. it drives at 0.8 miles an hour along the crawlerway. the journey takes 5-7 hours depending on the destination.
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3.5 miles per gallon Or each car uses about 150 gallons during a 500 mile race
The average miles per gallon of the Ford Escape is 28.5 during highway driving. City driving can give an average of as low as 23 miles per gallon.
Most of the movement, the orbiting of the shuttle around Earth, comes from the launch which gets the shuttle up to over 17,000 miles per hour. While in orbit, astronauts use the the shuttle's reaction control system to make adjustments to the shuttles orbit. The main engines are used again at the end of the mission to slow the shuttle down allowing the Earth's gravity to the rest of the work to bring the shuttle and astronauts back to the ground.