One
hour in space is a remarkable amount of time. It seems you can spend a lifetime
being in space, and your body will only have experienced 10 minutes in it. If
it sounds like a crazier experiment than the original moon landing, that's
because it is. But just how long does one hour in space last? We'll find out
below!
How long does 1 hour in space
last? This question is always asked by people when they are contemplating a
trip to space. The answer seems simple, but there are actually several
variables that determine how long a trip to space will take.
Here's complete
information that how long does 1hour in space last:
It depends on the amount of
time spent in space, the shape and size of your spacecraft, and how much
gravity you're experiencing.
For example, if you're spending
an hour in weightlessness on a zero-gravity flight, it will take about 10
minutes for your body to adjust to having zero gravity. After that, your body
will try to contract all its muscles so that it can return to Earth's normal
gravitational force.
A trip into orbit takes about
two hours, which is about half as long as a zero-gravity flight because you
spend more time in orbit than you do in space. Your body then has the same
amount of time to adjust from weightlessness as it does from launch into orbit.
Here's further information
about time in space:
1. You might get older at a different rate
than your friends back on Earth:
The amount of time you have in
space is affected by your body's metabolism, depending on how long you've been
in orbit and how much exercise you do.
The number of hours you can
stay in space depends on the type of mission you're on. For example, astronauts
aboard the International Space Station (ISS) spend around six months at a time
working and living within a small space environment.
Your body changes when it's
exposed to a microgravity environment. You might get older at a different rate
than your friends back on Earth.
2. A full year in space would only feel like
about 89 Earth days:
One year in space would feel
like about 89 Earth days. That's because a full year in space is about twice as
long as an Earth day, which is just over 24 hours.
So if you think of each day in
space as equivalent to two days on Earth, then you can use this equation:
1 year = 2 x 24 x 365 x 89
If you multiply all those
numbers together and divide by the number of days in one year, you get the
answer: 1 year = 89 Earth days.
3. Light behaves differently in space:
Light behaves differently in
space. It can be used to measure the distance between two objects, and this is
true even if one of those objects is a star.
In space, light is bent by the
curvature of Earth's atmosphere, which causes it to travel more slowly than it
would if it were not bent. This can be seen in the diagrams below:
The first diagram shows how
light travels through Earth's atmosphere at a typical speed of 300,000 km/s.
This means that a light pulse travels from A to B in 1 second and from A to C
in 3 seconds.
The second diagram shows how
light travels through space at a typical speed of 1 million km/s (a million
times as fast as in Earth's atmosphere). This means that a light pulse travels
from A to B in 2 seconds and from A to C in 4 seconds.
4. Traveling at the speed of light isn’t
very fast in the grand scheme of things:
Traveling at the speed of light
isn’t very fast in the grand scheme of things.
For example, if you want to get
from Earth to the moon, it takes about 6 hours for a rocket to reach us from
our planet. To get to Mars, which is about 300 times further from Earth than
the moon is from us, it would take about 20 days.
So if you could travel at the
speed of light, that would be about 5 years for a trip to Mars and almost 3
years for one to the moon.
But if you were traveling at
that speed in your car, it would take you well over 50 years to drive that far!
That’s because your car doesn’t have any kind of propulsion system (like an
engine). It just travels along on roads—which are pretty much flat planes—at a
constant rate of speed.
5. The compression and expansion of time
depends on your speed through space:
The compression and expansion
of time depends on your speed through space.
When you're moving at constant
speed, the distance between two neighboring points in space is conserved. So,
if you travel a certain distance away from your starting point, and then return
to it later, the same amount of time has passed for you as well.
But this isn't true when you're
traveling at non-constant speeds. If you travel at 10 meters per second for 1
hour, then your entire trip will be covered in about 10 seconds:
You can see that there are two
distinct parts to this journey: the first part where I'm moving at a constant
speed (10 meters per second), and the second part where I'm moving at
non-constant speed (1 meter per second). This is because there are two
different distances that each point in space needs to travel before we can
measure them again: one from when they were last measured to when they'll be
measured again, and one from when I started measuring them to when I'll finish
measuring them.
Conclusion:
The crew of the international
space station spends a quarter of their time on something called 'crew time.'
That is, they are busy performing scientific experiments and assisting other
crew members. The rest of their time is free to do almost anything they want.
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