Friday, November 11, 2011

Pertaining to the speed of the planet relative to a spaceship?

I was wondering that since the Earth moves around the sun at a speed of 67, 000 mph, discounting the speed of the solar system and the galaxy etc (which is somewhere around 1000 km per second) would that mean that any spacecraft leaving earth would be moving at a base speed of 67, 000 mph? wouldn't earth speed away or is the spaceshutttle basically barreling through space at mach 500 or something to that effect? Isn't there something better I could be thinking about at 7:30 in the morning? no.

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