How long would it take you to fly to moon in a jumbo jet?
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Jumbo jets travel at about 900 km/hr, and the moon is 384400 km from earth, so it would take about 18 days to get to the moon going that fast.\n\nHowever, jumbo jets work under the principles of lift propulsion, which requires air.  Since there is no air between the earth and the moon, the jet would be doomed shortly after takeoff.
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it took the voyager 42 hours. but that was a slow plane. in a faster plane it would take less time. take the sr71 black bird plane used by the cia max speed is around 4000 miles per hour, that would take six mid air refuelings or more, and probably around ten hours to completely go around the world
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Not soon enough.\nSince there is no Super-power race for space dominance, it comes down to "will it make a profit".  So, when some industry or company decides they can make a few million bucks, it'll happen.  Until then, don't go looking for tickets for the moon shuttle.
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The Apollo missions that had to get to the moon had to hit 25,000 to get out of Earth orbit and for certain maneuvers around the moon. The space shuttle and/or ISS orbits the Earth at speeds between 17,000MPH and 18,000 MPH.\n\nUnmanned Spaceborn:\nHelios probes orbiting the sun hit 252,800 km/h in 1974.\n\nManned Airborn:\nOct. 3, 1967, the X-15A-2, piloted by Major William J. Pete' Knight, went Mach 6.7 (4,520 m.p.h.) above the Mojave Desert. Record stood until broken by the Space Shuttle in 1980. Highest altitude reached by X-15A was 354,200 ft.\n\nThe fastest air-breathing, manned vehicle, the SR-71, achieved slightly more than Mach 3 back in 1964. Chuck Yeager hit Mach 1 in 1947 with the X-1.\n\nUnmanned Airborn:\nRecently the unmanned speed record (in proximity to the earth anyway) was broken. The X43A hit Mach 9.6+. Scramjets are thought to be capable of hitting Mach 15+.\nexternal link\n\nManned Ground:\nMach 1.016 in the "ThrustSSC" by Andy Green in 1997.\nexternal link\n\nUnmanned Ground:\nA rocket sled hit Mach 8.5 (unmanned)
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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... ;-)
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preparation for the eventual moon landings
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Outer space...and to the moon.
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you can achieve this with centrifugal force. it is called an orbit. the moon is very close to this point it reappears in nearly the same spot about 25 hours later!
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Virgin Galactic is offering this "as soon as 2008" for the low price of 100 million USD.  Realistically, it will probably take more than a few years to ramp up tourist missions to the moon, especially if no one is signing up...
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For Apollo 15 it was 78 hours and 31 minutes from launch to lunar orbit insertion. That is about three and a quarter days. That was typical for Apollo, a little over 3 days.\n\nThe recent Pluto mission, New Horizons, took about 9 hours to pass the orbit of the Moon. But of course it didn't stop at the Moon. Stopping would have required saving some of the rocket fuel that got it up to speed to slow down again at the Moon, which would have meant a slower trip.
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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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Sky-dive or fly a plane.
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The sky's the limit!  Sorry, couldn't resist.\n\nIt really depends on what advances are made in physics and technology.  Right now it looks like it would be very unlikely that man will ever leave the solar system.  The reason for that is because it takes so much energy to push a craft at the speeds necessary to get anywhere in a decent amount of time.  NASA recently launched a tiny, little probe to Pluto, which will take 10 years to arrive.  To send a crew of people that far, a much larger craft would be needed to support the life systems, which means far more energy would be required to push it.  The energy source would further increase the mass of the craft and increase the energy requirements, etc.\n\nI think our best bet with "conventional" technology would be to send a suicide mission to Alpha Centauri (the next-nearest star).  I don't know what the point would be of sending humans there, but it could be done over a period of maybe 100 years.  The original astronauts might not make it, but they could have children or grandchildren during the voyage who could reach the star.\n\nIf scientists ever figure out how to create and travel through wormholes or other theoretical means, then there's really no limit to how far we can go.
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The average distance from the moon to the earth is 238,857 miles. The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second. There for the time from the light from the moon to reach earth is...\n\n238,857 miles / 186,286 miles per second = 1.28223 seconds \n\n1.28223 seconds
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um depends how fast you're going. If you're going the speed of light it would only take 8 minutes. \nIf you were flying in the spaceshuttle, which goes Mach 25 or about 17,500MPH it would still take 221 days to get to the sun. So not even a year.
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It is roughly 28 day to make a trip around the earth
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7.349 x 10 ^22 kg - every night! (source: NASA) :)\n\nThe apparent size of the moon varies.  Check this link for an explanation:\n\nhttp://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/bigmoon_000105.html