• Question: How long would it take to fly to Mars?

    Asked by aliceandsarah to Ed, Keith, Tish, Nicola, Rachel on 8 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Keith Beattie

      Keith Beattie answered on 8 Mar 2013:

      I think it is at least 6 months based on current technology – I understand getting there is farily easy, getting back is the difficult part.

    • Photo: Nicola Lazenby

      Nicola Lazenby answered on 11 Mar 2013:

      I haven’t got wings yet……so it would take me a while to even get off the ground 😉

    • Photo: Edward Taylor

      Edward Taylor answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      When it is closest to earth (on its big orbit) Mars is about 35 million miles away, and spaceships can travel at more than 10,000 miles per hour. As Keith says, that equates to roughly 6 months travel time. Lets hope in our life time we can build even faster spacecraft and get there ourselves.

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