I've been reading quite a bit about the Apollo programme just recently and one question is bugging me. If the spacecraft travelled at 17 000 mph and the Moon is 250 000 miles away, how did it take 3 days to travel from the Earth to the Moon. Surely at that speed it would only take 15 hours. I realise that the craft orbited the Earth a couple of times first before entering TLI, but that wouldn't take up over 2 days!
So what happened with the rest of the time?
2007-03-22
00:47:50
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Whoosher
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