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The Earth's gravity is indefinite. The earth will always present a force on a spacecraft, no matter the distance. However, the force could become very very small with increased distance.

A space craft can go past the point where earth's gravity will not cause them to fall back to Earth. Some crafts stay in orbit, so they are still close enough to the earth to stay "locked" into its gravitational pull, but other crafts such as the Titan have gone very far beyond.

Any object with mass has an escape velocity. The escape velocity is the velocity at which an object must travel in order to escape the gravitational pull of the massive object. The escape velocity of the Earth is 11.186 kilometers per second (a little over 25,000 miles per hour). If an object can travel at that speed away from the Earth, it will travel away from the Earth and it won't be pulled back in.

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There is no limit to the distance over which the gravitational attraction toward an object extends. You're never 'beyond' the gravity of the Earth, or of the sun, or of Jupiter, or of a stone in your front yard etc.

However, a space craft can go past the point where earth's gravity will not cause them to fall back to Earth. Some crafts stay in orbit, so they are still close enough to the earth to stay "locked" into its gravitational pull, but other crafts such as the Titan have gone very far beyond.

Any object with mass has an escape velocity. The escape velocity is the velocity at which an object must travel in order to escape the gravitational pull of the massive object. The escape velocity of the Earth is 11.186 kilometers per second (a little over 25,000 miles per hour). If an object can travel at that speed away from the Earth, it will travel away from the Earth and it won't be pulled back in.

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for space krafts to go beyond the earths gravity, it must have the power of its engine to go against the gravity.

Surely space krafts are designed so, and it goes far away from the eath's gravity area. For that reason higly powerful nuclear powered engines are used.

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