So we go to Real Time Satellite Tracking at N2YO.com which gives the location of Endeavour in latitude and longitude as well as ~ travel speed. According to this site Endeavour was traveling at 4.62 m/s during Day 2 of it's mission. That means it travels 5 miles in about a second. WOW!
So we have to do a little math to get miles per hour.
Let's start with basics:
60 seconds = 1 minute
60 minute = 1 hour
60 minute = 1 hour
16 272 m/h
This means that the Endeavour orbits Earth (and sees a sunrise) once every 92 minutes!
We finished the day with a writing prompt titled "What would you bring on the shuttle?"
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