How long does it take to get from the earth to sun in a space rocket?

Question

sciance project

Answer 1

how are you supposed to know? Noones ever done it!

Answer 2

No rocket has ever gone to the Sun. Of course it would depend on how fast it went too. Rockets do not all go the same speed.

It is 93 million miles from the Earth to the Sun. So at a million miles an hour it would take 93 hours, but no rocket has ever gone that fast.

If you could get a rocket to go 66,000 MPH, which is STILL faster than any rocket has even gone, that would cancel out the speed it started with on Earth due to the Earth orbiting the Sun and it would fall into the Sun due to the Sun's gravity. It would start falling slowly and fall faster and faster as it fell until in 3 months it would hit the Sun.

But if you had only a 30,000 MPH rocket, which is probably the fastest one ever built, it would never reach the Sun that way. It would end up in an elliptical orbit that would get closer to the Sun at its low point and then come back up to where it started. Kind of like a comet orbit. So the way scientists have proposed going to the Sun (yes it HAS been proposed) is to go to Jupiter and do a gravity assist flyby of that large planet and use that to make it fall toward the Sun. That would take several years to do, going all the way out to Jupiter and then falling all that way back.

Answer 3

it depends on how hot the sun is! x

Answer 4

you would be dead befor you can find out :D

Answer 5

The distance between earth and sun is not constant, but averagely it is 92,955,820.5 miles. So let's say if the speed of rocket is 25,000 miles an hour, it will take :

92,955,820.5/ 25,000 = 3,178.23 hours

3,178.23/24 hour a day = 154.93 days

or about 5 months

Answer 6

The sun is about 93,000,000 miles away from Earth----- so how FAST will you be traveling?

Answer 7

You shouldn't be cheating on you science project.

P.S It takes infinate years.

Answer 8

The Sun is approximately 93 million miles from Earth so once you decide how fast you want to go you can compute the time it will take you.  The Sun has been targeted for scientific purposes but if you could stand the heat you should consider a stopover on Mercury before you continue into oblivion.  Mercury, which has received at least one previous fly-by (Voyager series), is thought to have ice in the shady areas at its poles.  Have a nice trip.  Tell God we love him.

Answer 9

Forever.

You'd never get there in a spacerocket cuz you'd be disintegrated by the time you get anywhere near there.