Since escape velocity depends on the mass of the planet or moon that a spacecraft is blasting off of, a spacecraft leaving the moon's surface could go slower than one blasting off of the Earth, because the moon has less gravity than the Earth. On the other hand, the escape velocity for Jupiter would be many times that of Earth's because Jupiter is so huge and has so much gravity.

Body
	Mass
		Escape Velocity in Kilometers/ Second
			Escape Velocity in Miles/Hour
Ceres (largest asteroid in the asteroid belt)
	1,170,000,000,000,000,000 kg
		.64 km/sec
			1430.78 mph
The Moon
	73,600,000,000,000,000,000 kg
		2.38 km/sec
			5320.73 mph
Earth
	5,980,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
		11.2 km/sec
			25038.72 mph
Jupiter
	715,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
		59.5 km/sec
			133018.2 mph
Sun
	1,990,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
		618. km/sec
			1381600.8 mph
Sirius B (a white dwarf star)
	2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
		5,200. km/sec
			11625120 mph

One reason that manned missions to other planets 
are difficult to plan is that a ship would have 
to take enough fuel into space to blast off of the 
other planet when the astronauts wanted to go home. 

The weight of the fuel would make the spaceship so 
heavy it would be hard to blast it off of Earth!

	[[[ Nonsense.  The ship need not land!
	Orbit the ship & use small shuttles. ]]]


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The land at the equator is moving 1670 km per hour, and land halfway to the pole is only moving 1180 km per hour, so launching from the equator makes the spacecraft move almost 500 km/hour faster once it is launched.