What If You Could Drive a Car to Space?

Space starts just 100 kilometers above your head. If there were a road going straight up, you could drive there in about an hour. But what if you kept on driving? In this episode we take the longest road trip in the universe: a little car at 100 km/h, never stopping, racing against a beam of light. From the edge of space to the Moon, the Sun, Neptune, Voyager 1, the nearest star and beyond our galaxy. ⏱ Chapters 0:00 Space is closer than you think 0:35 The rules of the trip 1:11 The edge of space 1:48 The International Space Station 2:28 The Moon 3:01 The Sun 3:36 Neptune and Voyager 1 4:24 The nearest star 5:04 The Milky Way and Andromeda 5:49 Our trip log 🚗 In this video • Where space begins, and why airplane wings stop working up there • How fast the Space Station circles the Earth (16 sunrises a day!) • How long it would take to drive to the Moon and to the Sun • Why the sunlight on your skin left the Sun about 8 minutes ago • Voyager 1, the first spacecraft one light-day away from Earth • What a light-year really is • Why the light from Andromeda is 2.5 million years old ▶ Next episode: How big is the Sun, really? 🔔 Subscribe to OrbitInk Space for space explained simply, one drawing at a time. #space #astronomy #science