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LESSON 3 · Humanity's Journey to Space

PAUSE TO THINK

How long would it take to drive to Mars at highway speed?

Over 250 years

At 100 km/h, the average 225-million-km distance to Mars would take about 257 years to cover by car. Space travel works only because spacecraft move thousands of times faster than any car.

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