BenCoyote
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Well here i EU, for us Space time is relative.. and 45 to 70 minutes flying through space is one thing..
But what if we had to take lover and lover flights.. say 30, 60, 90 days or more.. Well NASA has in fact done this before.. with the Skylab Station missions back in 1973..
But wait, there's more.. Let's ay that were' going to go to Mars.. and yes they say it's goable..
How long would it take? At least a year to go to mars and back.. Unless the astronauts that are going to wars are going to stay there for quite a while..
Well this last week, AAmerican Astronaut Scott kelly is going to try and prove that spending a year n space is in fact Child's play )Or so we hope)
Scott Kelly is the brother of Mark Kelly a now retired astronaut who used to do shuttle missions, after his wife former Arizona US Senator Gabrielle Giffords was wounded and injured in an assassination attempt some 3 years ago, Mark haas just retired from the astronaut carrer and has let his brother Scott now take his place in the history books..
Mr. Kelly if everything goes right will spend a total of 342 days (or almost a year) but with his additional flight time h had with his young brother during the shuttle era, Scott Kelly will have spent more than 522 days in space.. and that in itself ia a record ..
But wait there's more.. remember that i said flying is space is relative.? Well this is a bit of an Einsteinian test.. and in fact Scott is just 6 minutes younger than his brother, mark..
Now put an astronaut into space for a year and in fact due to his speed (EEven though it's a paltry 185000 mph, means that Scott will age a little bit slower than his brother.. Thus in a sense Mark will be a lot older (by fractions of a second than his younger brother.
Eistein called this "The Twin Paradox.." and his theory stated that if you had two twins who were identical and you sent one at the speed of light say to the nearest star, 4.3 light yers away and then returned im..while he's only have aged about 8.5 years, his brother on earth would have aged almost 70.. and this is if the brother going to the nearest star would be traveling as close to the speed of light as possible..
So in a way this is a double test.. One test is to see if we can stay alive i space for over 300 days, (Even nasA has never done this, being that the lonest stay s in sklab were just 83 days tops.. and even then in the ISS most astronauts don't say beyond say 180 days.. so believe me, this is going to be an epic trip.. around the eart, over and over again.. 90 minutses per revolution, 24000 miles in travel didtace for the next 342 dayys..
The math alone will give anyone a headache.. even me..
So heere is to Scoot, who is already onboard the station and is alreaydy 3 days into the 342 dys stay.. so 3 days down, 339 to go..
Benjamin Ben Coyote
aA.K.A> and "His_Dog_Spot"
But what if we had to take lover and lover flights.. say 30, 60, 90 days or more.. Well NASA has in fact done this before.. with the Skylab Station missions back in 1973..
But wait, there's more.. Let's ay that were' going to go to Mars.. and yes they say it's goable..
How long would it take? At least a year to go to mars and back.. Unless the astronauts that are going to wars are going to stay there for quite a while..
Well this last week, AAmerican Astronaut Scott kelly is going to try and prove that spending a year n space is in fact Child's play )Or so we hope)
Scott Kelly is the brother of Mark Kelly a now retired astronaut who used to do shuttle missions, after his wife former Arizona US Senator Gabrielle Giffords was wounded and injured in an assassination attempt some 3 years ago, Mark haas just retired from the astronaut carrer and has let his brother Scott now take his place in the history books..
Mr. Kelly if everything goes right will spend a total of 342 days (or almost a year) but with his additional flight time h had with his young brother during the shuttle era, Scott Kelly will have spent more than 522 days in space.. and that in itself ia a record ..
But wait there's more.. remember that i said flying is space is relative.? Well this is a bit of an Einsteinian test.. and in fact Scott is just 6 minutes younger than his brother, mark..
Now put an astronaut into space for a year and in fact due to his speed (EEven though it's a paltry 185000 mph, means that Scott will age a little bit slower than his brother.. Thus in a sense Mark will be a lot older (by fractions of a second than his younger brother.
Eistein called this "The Twin Paradox.." and his theory stated that if you had two twins who were identical and you sent one at the speed of light say to the nearest star, 4.3 light yers away and then returned im..while he's only have aged about 8.5 years, his brother on earth would have aged almost 70.. and this is if the brother going to the nearest star would be traveling as close to the speed of light as possible..
So in a way this is a double test.. One test is to see if we can stay alive i space for over 300 days, (Even nasA has never done this, being that the lonest stay s in sklab were just 83 days tops.. and even then in the ISS most astronauts don't say beyond say 180 days.. so believe me, this is going to be an epic trip.. around the eart, over and over again.. 90 minutses per revolution, 24000 miles in travel didtace for the next 342 dayys..
The math alone will give anyone a headache.. even me..
So heere is to Scoot, who is already onboard the station and is alreaydy 3 days into the 342 dys stay.. so 3 days down, 339 to go..
Benjamin Ben Coyote
aA.K.A> and "His_Dog_Spot"
