why when the international space station is only 250miles away does it take at least 4 hours to get there?

Question

I’m going to be very disappointed if the rockets top out at 65mph.

In: Planetary Science

Answer 1

It takes at least several hours to get to the space station because it’s fragile, expensive, and full of people you don’t want to die.

If you just wanted to get there in the same way that a missile strike gets somewhere, you could indeed do that much more quickly.