In order for a Rocket to leave the majority of Earth's Gravitational Effect in order to say...Travel to the Moon...the rocket must travel at least at 7 Miles per second...which is the EARTH'S ESCAPE VELOCITY.when something like a rocket leaves the earth, does it get lighter and lighter as it gets farther away from earth.
And is that due to the acceleration of the rocket....
Or....is it due to moving farther from the earth's gravitional field.
You could travel from hear to the Moon or anywhere else you wanted and never travel faster than an arbitrarily small fraction of the escape velocity.In order for a Rocket to leave the majority of Earth's Gravitational Effect in order to say...Travel to the Moon...the rocket must travel at least at 7 Miles per second...which is the EARTH'S ESCAPE VELOCITY.
Any velocity less than this will result in the rocket either being captured in an orbit around earth...and such orbit's could be unstable resulting in a decaying orbit where the rocket will orbit for a specific time then fall back to Earth.
The Rocket get's lighter as it travels farther away from Earth but it is the Rocket's Mass that determines it velocity dependent upon applied force of propulsion.
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