If a person had a superhero suit and got tired of adrenaline jumping from planes and bridges, he could theoretically try to jump from the International Space Station into pitch black space. With a bit of luck, it would hit the earth’s surface in about two and a half years. How would his journey go?
We’re getting started. The contours of the International Space Station have just been swallowed up by the cosmos, and the space adventurer finds himself alone after the jump. But the journey back to Earth will not be as simple and fast as it might seem. If it were enough to just fall to the earth’s surface, a person would be home in two hours. But the journey of our astronaut, as Business Insider wrote, is influenced by a number of factors.
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A human with 12 times the speed of a fighter jet
Some people might have gotten the wrong impression that the International Space Station (ISS) is an almost static object, but in fact, like any other object in its vicinity, it moves in orbit and flies 12 times faster than a military fighter jet. Thus, the moment a person jumps out of the ISS, they would have the same high speed and engage in circling the orbit.
While a space station controls its pace, a space adventurer in open space cannot control either his speed or the direction he flies. If the astronaut is not hit by a particle of space debris, he will gradually start to slow down due to the thin atmosphere and slowly descend. But it won’t just fall to Earth.
Unless you have some kind of super suit, you probably would not survive a fall from the International Space Station pic.twitter.com/HxcaUoncv8
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China’s malfunctioning Tiankung 1 space station took about two years to fall to the home planet from a height of 350 km (it entered the atmosphere in April 2018). And today’s active International Space Station is even higher, at an average altitude of 400 km, so it would take about two and a half years to fall from its space region.
The force of gravity and monstrous overload
Anyway, after months of boredom, the space tourist would eventually descend to the edge of the atmosphere, dropping out of orbit and being pulled by gravity. At that moment, the falling person would begin to pick up tremendous speed. He would need a really tough superhero suit to survive an overload of at least 8G. In addition, if the astronaut fell feet first, the blood would rush from the brain to his legs and without qualified training he would almost certainly pass out.
The ambient temperature would also change. While the adventurer was cold in space, it would get really hot during the fall to Earth – it would heat up to around 1,650°C.
After all the vicissitudes, the astronaut would open the parachute about one kilometer above the ground and land on the home planet without any problems. However, this only applies in theory.
Source: Business Insider
2023-09-18 11:23:00
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