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Originally Posted by cookie8
After lift off, how long does it take the Shuttle to reach orbit anybody knows? Hours? 24 hours? The reason I ask is whether I could see a flyby here in Sydney in the morning twilight.
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Hi Vicent,
They reach orbital velocity not long after takeoff and an orbit only takes about 90 minutes.
To give you some feel for the speed relativities, putting re-fuelling aside, you could fly in a 747
from Florida to Sydney in the order of 20 hours.