• Question: How fast is a rocket

    Asked by 11devosr to Christina, Colin, Jess, Samaneh, Steve on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Christina Pagel

      Christina Pagel answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      To get into space a rocket needs to go fast enough to escape earth’s gravity – that’s called “escape velocity” and in physics you learn it as 11 metres per second…. that’s about 25000 miles per hour!

    • Photo: Colin Dick

      Colin Dick answered on 20 Jun 2013:

      Hi there! Another good answer Christina with a small typo – it should be 11 kilometres per second =) pretty fast!

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