Point a car straight up at 60 mph and keep the pedal down. Space is about an hour away, the Space Station about four hours, and the Moon about five and a half months of nonstop driving. The Sun is roughly 177 years away, longer than any human lifetime.
Assumptions: a constant 60 mph with no stops, measured straight out from Earth’s surface or center as noted.
• Edge of space: the Kármán line, 62 miles (100 km), a convention rather than a physical wall (Discover Magazine) → 62 min
• ISS: average altitude 200–250 miles (322–402 km) (Astronomy) → about 3.3–4.2 h
• Moon: mean distance 384,400 km ≈ 238,855 mi (NASA NSSDC Moon Fact Sheet) → about 3,981 h ≈ 166 days
• Sun: Earth’s semimajor axis 149.598 million km ≈ 92.96 million mi (NASA NSSDC Earth Fact Sheet) → about 1.55 million h ≈ 177 years
Distances are averages. The real values vary along each orbit.
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Space is one hour up, and the Moon is five and a half months away. Would you stop at the edge of space or keep driving to the Moon?