Earth's Escape Velocity

Hey everyone, this is Dalton with another astronomy essay. This month I will be talking about what happens when you escape Earth’s velocity. So first, what does “Escape Velocity” mean? Basically, it means that you have reached the end of Earth’s atmosphere and gravitational pull. The first Earth sent-object to break Earth's escape velocity was the satellite Luna. Since you are outside of all gravity, if you are going 1,000 miles an hour at a steady rate, you could theoretically go on forever in space at 1,000 miles an hour if you didn’t crash into anything. Imagine this: You fly into space and fire a semi-auto pistol into space. If the bullets didn’t crash into anything during flight, they would travel into the galaxy forever. This puts the job of being an astronaut into new perspective: If you run out of fuel, then your velocity would make you travel away from Earth forever without any possibility of coming back to Earth. The first object to break Earth’s escape velocity was the satellite Luna. This makes studying the Earth’s escape velocity very interesting and useful for space exploration.