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buckphifty150150 t1_iuy4k4g wrote

Reply to comment by cmnorthauthor in How many years by baconbitche

Why did i think it was closer? Or is it short to get to space?

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TypingWithGlovesOn t1_iuyum50 wrote

Lots of people use 100 km as the beginning of "space." The ISS and other low Earth orbits are only about 400 km up. The moon is very much farther away

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buckphifty150150 t1_iuz7mx3 wrote

Thank you for the clarification.. I just thought I heard it takes like an hour to get to space by car or something like that

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BubbaBro t1_iuzfdcx wrote

Which makes the fact that the James Webb Space Telescope is 1.5 million km away (1 million miles) that much more impressive.

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