NASA spacecraft rockets toward Jupiter’s moon Europa

[*Awful Llama*]

(10-17-2024, 08:33 PM)FormerlyBengalRugby Wrote: The speed out there is what always made me questionable about space travel.

I know it happens, but at that speed, the smallest pebble punches through everything. Always had that question about space travel.

Say what you want about Gravity, and Neil deGrasse Tyson certainly had issues with its physics and mechanics of space travel, but the debris cascade sequence was harrowing.  A grain of sand traveling at 40,000 mph can be a killer.   Still, I wish we did have the capability for long-range manned flight right now.  Don't know if I can make it all the way to next century.