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When traveling to space do astronauts travel away from Earth's orbit?
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∙ 7y ago
This depends on where the astronauts were headed to, If going to the moon, then no they do not leave earth's orbit. But if astronauts were to go to Mars, then yes. To go to other planets and to travel through space, Astronauts will leave Earth's orbit. When traveling to space from earth, Astronauts leave the atmosphere and will leave the orbit if necessary and if the travel distance is far enough.
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∙ 7y ago
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∙ 14y agoNo living creature, including humans, launched from earth so far has ever left earth orbit.
Even on a moon-landing mission, the Apollo craft remained technically in earth-orbit. If they
had never executed any additional thruster-burns, they would have circled the moon and
returned to the earth's vicinity. Having fired retro-thrust and settled into lunar orbit, they
were still in earth-orbit, because the moon is.
It's possible to leave earth orbit, but it hasn't been done yet.
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Is it true that astronauts in orbit are not truly weightless?
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What do astronauts fly in?
Astronauts in their spacecraft (such as the Space Shuttle) are lifted into space by huge rockets which accelerate the craft to "escape velocity" (about 25,000 mph). This puts the craft into orbit around the Earth, its forward velocity balancing the continuous pull of gravity. When they are ready to return to Earth, they use rockets to slow down, and gravity pulls them back out of orbit. When astronauts travelled to the Moon, another smaller rocket pushed the Apollo spacecraft out of orbit, and carried it to the gravitational field of the Moon. Another rocket firing pushed the craft back to Earth. Unmanned space probes have travelled to even farther distances from Earth, including the outer planets Uranus and Neptune. Most of the travel is coasting, because there is practically no matter in space to slow a spacecraft down.
Is the earths axis rotation almost parallel to the plane of its orbit?
No; it's about 23 degrees off the plane of its orbit.
Does the suns revolutions cause the seasons?
no. the earths orbit cause the seasons
What is The actual shape of earths orbit around the sun is described as?
Ellipse.
Which is larger the earth or the earths orbit?
the earths orbit because the earths orbit is the size of earth + the size of the moon
What is the name of the first space shuttle that traveled to earths orbit?
Columbia was the first shuttle to enter orbit. This was the same shuttle that was destroyed during re-entry in January 2003, with the loss of seven astronauts.
What is Something you can not keep up with?
Earths Orbit? Earths Orbit?
Does Mars travel faster then Earth?
NO mars has longer years so it has longer orbit and traveling
How long does it takes light traval across the diameter of earths orbit?
It takes about 997.186 seconds for light to travel across the diameter of Earth's orbit.
How much time does it take for light to travel across the diameter of the earths orbit?
That would be roughly 16minutes 40seconds .
How long does it take for light to travel across the earths orbit around the sun?
about 16 minutes and 40 seconds
Are astronauts really weightless in orbit?
No.
Is earths orbit around the sun unusual?
Earths orbit around the sun is not unusual.
When astronauts float while in orbit because inertia and what are balanced in orbit?
Gravity
What do changes in Earths orbit affect?
earths tempertures
The planet with the orbit closest to Earths orbit is?
Venus
