How far away are you when nasa launches a space shuttle?
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2 miles, but you get a good view, and the rumble of the engines are pretty loud, though make sure to have a good pair of binoculars with you.
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As a previous poster correctly said, they have to launch at just the right time depending on where they are going.  For the upcoming launch, the space shuttle is going to the International Space Station.   The ISS orbits Earth (as all satellites do) so they have to launch the shuttle at the right time so that it's near the ISS when it (the shuttle) reaches orbit.  The ISS orbits Earth about once every 90 minutes, and the part of Earth it passes over keeps changing as Earth rotates, thus leading to a narrow launch window for the shuttle.\n\nBy the way, when the shuttle is orbitting Earth (this goes for the ISS, too) it doesn't zoom around in space they way they do in Star Wars or anything.  In fact, usually it doesn't have any rockets firing at all, it just orbits Earth, with the only force on it being the force of Earth's gravity.  The shuttle does have little rockets on it to make small changes in its trajectory, and to allow it to dock smoothly with the ISS.  My point is, if the shuttle were on the other side of Earth compared to the ISS, the shuttle wouldn't be able to dock with the ISS since the shuttle doesn't zoom around.
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Okay, here you are.\n\nAlex's rocket:\n\nDistance: 900 feet \nRate: 112.5 f/s\nTime: 8 seconds\n\nKeesha's rocket:\n\nDistance: 900 feet\nTime: 5 seconds\nRate: 180 f/s
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A far pointer is 1100 miles away.\nyou can't walk around a huge pointer.
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Earth's average distance from the sun is a little bit under 93 million miles. The closets the Earth gets to the sun is about 90 million miles and the farthest is about 96 million miles.
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How fast are you planning to fly?  If it's 93,000,000 miles, you can do the math.\n\nSince you would probably burn up before you get there, you probably couldn't fly there.
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That makes no sense. It doesn't exist. Sorry, not applicable. Space shuttle year. What is that? Maybe try: http://www.nasa.gov
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Ok, first of all the jet would stop working once you left atmosphere - but ignoring that for a moment and assuming you were in a craft capable of going 500mph:-\n\nWell at about 2.7 billion miles away, approximately 616 years.\n\n\n\n**update** Phew, so pleased to see that someone else concurred (+/-) 1 year, I suddenly thought I might have been out by a factor of 10 :)
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Being 9.54 Astrononical units (93,000,000 miles is one AU or our distance form Earth to the Sun), it does depend on if we are on the same side of the sun.Same side we are 8.5 AU away, opposite side 10.5 AU away.
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Distance From Sun is: 93,000,000 Miles
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Once a craft gets to space, it is not affected by earth's spin. If a shuttle is meeting up with another craft (i.e. space-station) the orbits must be in-sync when the shuttle gets to space. There are only certain times when the orbits will be correct. NASA refers to the time when the shuttle needs to launch as a window.
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About 9000 working and not working. It's kind of a challenge for NASA because if they launch a space shuttle, there's a good chance it'll run into one of those sattelites. We have a computer/ telescope tracking them to find acceptable launch dates.
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I think your facts of science need to be updated.\n\nMars orbit is 1.5 AU (about 145 million miles)  from the Sun. \n\nThe Earth is 93 million miles away from the Sun.  At its closest, Mars is about 50 million miles away, and we have sent many probes to Mars without the need for "infinit (sic) energy"\n\nA manned Mars mission is well within human ability.
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"At 11:38 a.m., the Space Shuttle Challenger launched from Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.\n\n\nAt first, everything seemed to go well. However, 73 seconds after lift-off, Mission....."
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map quest dude\n2826.65 miles
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Depends on the distance you are from it. Close to the surface it is 9.81 m/s^2.\nThe gravitational force (and therefore the acceleration) decreases as the square of the distance from the centre of the earth. The surface of the earth is about 4000 miles from the centre - so if you flew 4000 miles above the surface of the earth, out into space, the acceleration would be 1/4 that of the surface... or about 2.45 m/s^2.
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space shuttle burns hydrogen. imagine you're standing under it when it launches. endothermic or exothermic?\n\ncorrect reaction formula was already given.