how long does it take for the space shuttle to get to Saturn, assuming that it can do that?
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Based on the fact it took one of the space probes 13 -14 years to get there, I'd have to say at least 15 years.  Think of it, round trip, you'd be 30 years older than when you left Earth.  Boy, they's have to offer some mighty sweet health benefits and a superbadass 401k before I'd consider it.
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Space Shuttle travels about 17,580 mph\n\nEarth to Mars is about 35,000,000 miles (at its closest) so...\n\nabout 1990 hours to get to mars, or around 82.95 days.\n\nHowever, as the previous answerer stated, fuel for that would be almost impossible to do at those speeds, but that wasn't your question, was it?\n\nAll of these numbers are approximates. Hope this helps.
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A space craft would use the gravitational force of a large body to increase its velocity and/or change direction.  The speed achieved would depend in part on the strength of that gravitational field.  The nearest star to our sun is about 4 light-years away which means it takes light 4 years to cover that distance (about 23 trillion miles).  Using the most advanced technology we have today, a space craft would only be able to achieve about 10-20% of light-speed so it would take about 20 to 40 years to reach the nearest star at top speed.  However, because of the mass of the fuel and food and water needed to supply the astronaut on such a mission and the time needed for acceleration and braking, it becomes nearly impossible with current technology to reach it in a human lifetime.
454473
Depends on how fast your going.  It's 794 million miles away!  So divide that by how fast you want to go and you'll know.
277455
Well, they say there´s no end to space....prove it!!! \n\nI say it should take you about 3 weeks if you take a gentle stroll...but hey, who´s gonna prove me wrong!!! \n\nGreat question... ;-)
324819
It depends on the altitude of the orbit.  At a typical LEO (Low Earth Orbit), the typical time would be around 80 to 90 minutes.  At GEO (Geostationary Orbit) (22,800 miles high) it takes exactly one day, which is why communication satellites over the equator always remain over the same spot of the Earth.
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Earth orbits in a counterclock wise direction around the sun.\nIt takes approximately 365.25 days do orbit around the sun.\nThe gravitational forces between the sun and earth and the resulting centripetal and centrufugal forces makes the earth go around.
283146
you could make it in one second or beyond 12 hours depending on where you are, excluding flight delays at al. it should not actually take long enough to measure in days, unless you are travelling by boat/ship
199908
Saturn's temperature ranges from -139 C at the cloudtops to 11,700 C at the core.  So the answer is yes, depending on where you are.
412157
A plane would only have to travel at approx 1000mph to go around the Earth in 24 hours.  Some supersonic jets easily travel that fast.  Throw in time for slowdowns to meet with tankers and landings to refuel.  I believe that it can be done.  I'm surprised that the government didn't have the Sr71 attempt it during its career.
865412
Hey visit \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn
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the space shuttle is basically designed to place satellites in orbit and is not for going to the moon. if it could it would take approx 2 to 3 days. in the 60's when we actually could go to moon the apollo program used massive saturn five rockets just to get out of earth orbit. nasa are currently working on a new rocket based moon  program. try www.nasa.com for more info.
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hold on here, this isnt a short answer - \n    the Earth is on average 92Million miles from the sun, times pi for the circumforance and its roughly 290Million miles around.  divided by 365 for the number of days, the earth travels some 790,000 miles on one day, ya thats high on the odometer.  distance in one day divided by 24 hours comes to 33,000 MPH, now i did this on my computer but it does seem right, \n\nNow part 2, hang on here, big numbers ahead, the Solar System wihich Earth belongs to is roughly 26,000 Lightyears from the galactic core, (which has a Supermassive Black hole as heavy as 6 Trillion suns).  it take a quarter of a Billion years (250,000,000) for our solor system to complete one revolution around the galaxy. The circumferance could be some 80,000 Lightyears,  though i am not sure how to calculate the speed of the solar system.
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It depends on what you are sending.  The Apollo missions were the last set of *manned* missions to the moon, and here is the travel time:\nLaunched: 16 July 1969 UT 13:32:00 (09:32:00 a.m. EDT)<br />\nLanded on Moon: 20 July 1969 UT 20:17:40 (04:17:40 p.m. EDT)\nIt took about 4 days to get there.  Rocket technology has not change too much since then so you can expect that getting people to the moon at this point would take about the same amount of time.\nIf you are dealing with a non-human payload, you may be able to cut down time, both because it is likely lighter, and because you don't need to worry as much about damaging G-forces.\nI've included a link that has the history of all missions to the moon, manned and unmanned.
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well...once in earth orbit...you can be halfway to anywhere in space. this is because you have left the hardest part of your trip behind, which is the accent from the gravity well of earth, and have achieved an orbit.\n\nProvided, that while the shuttle is in orbit, you supplied it once again with a fuel tank and fuel, it could be configured to go to the moon. as one person mentioned in another answer, you place an extended support payload in the shuttles bay to provide for the extended environmental and logistical needs of the flight, like food, water and oxygen. of course, you cant land the shuttle, but the question just deals with getting to the moon.\n\nfor the person that used the Saturn five as an example of why we cant get back to the moon, think again. you had that huge rocket that in stages, lifted the massive payload of the Apollo capsule, the service module, and the lunar lander, to its parking orbit where with just the services module's one engine was able to break away from earth and go to the moon, slow down for an orbit, and relight to get back.  The shuttle has three main engines: all it needs is additional fuel to get it to break the orbit and go anywhere. \n\nthat's how i see it. it may be designed to land as an airplane after a mission, but it is technically a space ship or craft. properly supplied, it could make a moon voyage easily.
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Depending on where it's sent,  it could take a couple months.  If it's going to one of the larger FOBs it was usually about a month.  When it goes out to smaller remote places it could take twice that,  going from place to place until it finally reaches it's destination.  It's always tricky,  some packages sent after others will arrive sooner.  Guess that's not much of an answer,  but longer than a week.
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It requires enough thrust to escape Earth's Gravity. \n\nIt is said that a spacecraft uses more than 70% of the fuel on board in the first 20 minutes of the mission just to be able to "enter space", i.e. escape Earth's powerful gravitational pull.