What time zone is used by astronauts when they are on the earth's moon, i.e. Pacific, Central, Eastern, etc.

Answer 1

If you read the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal, you will see that they do not use any Earth time at all. They use mission elapsed time. That is simply the number of hours from launch. For example, the expert in the source below starts with Apollo 11 preparing to land on the Moon at 102:15:02, which is just 102 hours, 15 minutes and 2 seconds after Apollo 11 was launched.

I am not sure how Earth orbit missions are handled, but the answers above all seem reasonable.

Answer 2

NASA uses something called Universal Time Coordinate, Zulu, or Greenwich Mean Time (these are all different names for the same time coordinate). It's the time at Greenwich, UK, expressed on a 24 hour clock.

Answer 3

initially stay in a crucial time zone (Wisconsin), stay ten years in the Pacific (Washington) and at present residing in the eastern (Kentucky). eastern and crucial are the most acceptable time zones. Pacific sucks vast time.

Answer 4

Uhm... I don't believe astronauts have been on the moon since 1973.

Answer 5

All aviation and spaceflight uses UTC time (equal to Greenwich Mean Time).

Answer 6

zulu time

i think its like greenwich or something. this is the place where it is decide the day begins and ends. this gives the entire world one single time to synchronize their bombs.

Answer 7

eastern time for americans

Answer 8

Wow now that's a good question. Hope YAT chooses it for a 'Featured Question".

Answer 9

Their respective base station.

Answer 10

This has been asked already. They use GMT.