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Originally Posted by Ranger CS
If your interested in the concept of fast I highly recommend you go to Shaw on Demand then go to the Discovery Chanel and look for How Fast Is Fast. The program contains some other very interesting facts regarding things that travel fast. For example the Lunar astronauts that travelled to the moon using Saturn V rockets had to reached an escape velocity of 25,000 mph, which converts to 36,666 feet per second to escape earths gravity. No one has ever travelled faster than the astronauts who went to the moon.
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This reminds me of a series I once watched called “When we left earth, the nasa missions” I think it was on discovery as well. Hearing the astronauts talk about what it was like sitting on the top of the Saturn V and then later flying over the moon’s surface at several thousand mph was very interesting. Would love to watch that again if I could find it.