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Greetings From Connecticut!
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Hello Orion's Arm, my name is Dan Saranich. I'm 17 years old, from Connecticut (United States), and have a penchant for hard science fiction and space travel. I've been reading for almost a year now and I love some of your content, though disagree on certain things. 

I have a question that I wanted a serious answer to. 

When calculating the travel time for a spacecraft going from Planet A to Planet B, should I divide the spacecraft's exhaust velocity by the distance between points. 

For Example, a spacecraft going from Earth to Mars with an exhaust velocity of 11,000,000 m/s. The mean distance between Earth and Mars is 1.7 AU (254,000,00 km). 

1.7 AU / 11,000,000 m/s
= 6 Hours, 25 Minutes.

Is this the correct way to calculate how long a hypothetical flight would take place? Just wanted to know.

Thanks!  Big Grin
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Greetings From Connecticut! - by Daniel S - 02-08-2018, 05:36 AM
RE: Greetings From Connecticut! - by Rynn - 02-08-2018, 05:57 AM
RE: Greetings From Connecticut! - by Daniel S - 02-08-2018, 07:43 AM
RE: Greetings From Connecticut! - by Rynn - 02-08-2018, 08:09 AM
RE: Greetings From Connecticut! - by Daniel S - 02-08-2018, 09:20 AM
RE: Greetings From Connecticut! - by Daniel S - 02-08-2018, 08:17 AM
RE: Greetings From Connecticut! - by Rynn - 02-08-2018, 08:26 AM
RE: Greetings From Connecticut! - by Drashner1 - 02-08-2018, 10:26 AM

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