How Far Is It To Space

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How far is it to space. It would take the space shuttle seven months to fly there. Louis use saint louis. The size of our visible universe yellow.

If we re talking about the end of the earth s atmosphere it s generally accepted to be about 100km 62 miles upwards. This is called the karman line. Do not use st.

According to data collected by the university of calgary space begins and the earth s atmosphere ends at 73 miles above the earth s surface. Almost no effort is made to ensure that these figures are accurate. By the same token space is often defined as beginning at the lowest altitude at which satellites can maintain orbits for a reasonable time which is approximately 160 kilometers 100 miles above.

Even at an altitude of about 250 miles above the surface of the earth which is the altitude at which the international space station orbits the earth there are enough air molecules to slow the craft down over time. At an altitude of about 50 to 80 miles conventional airplanes cannot fly without traveling at orbital velocity. However we cannot reach all of it.

However other countries and agencies have a differing opinion on where space begins. In you need to spell out the whole name of the place without abbreviation. The milky way is a huge city of stars so big that even at the speed of light it would take 100 000 years to travel across it.

Space is mostly space and many objects in it are incredibly far apart by human standards. Soho esa nasa when we leave the solar system we find our star and its planets are just one small part of the milky way galaxy. The moon earth s closest neighbor has an average distance of 384 400 km 238 855 miles while pluto now known as a dwarf planet lives near the solar system s edge averaging 5 8 billion kilometers 3 6 billion miles from the sun.