how many hours / days did it take to fly from the earth to the moon?

Question

how many hours / days did it take to fly from the earth to the moon? how many kilometres is it from the earth to the moon? have any of the space shuttles travelled through the dangerous radiation belts above earth?

Answer 1

There were several missions to the moon, but I'll give you the info from the famous Apollo 11 mission, where Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon and said "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"

Apollo 11 was launched on July 16th, 1969 at 9:32 am Eastern Daylight Time (1:32 pm GMT) and the lunar module touched down on the moon on July 20th, 1969 at 4:17 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (8:17 pm GMT)
That's a total of 4 days, 6 hours, and 45 minutes from launchpad to touchdown on the Moon.
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The average distance from Earth to the Moon is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles). Side note: the moon is moving away from us at about 3.8 cm per year, so in 100,000 years, the moon should be another 3.8 km farther.
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The inner Van Allen Belt starts about 6,500 km above the surface of the Earth, and the Space Shuttle / International Space Station typically orbit the Earth at an altitude of about 360 km...so they aren't threatened by the radiation from the inner Van Allen Belt.

Great question!
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Answer 2

It takes 3 days to get to the Moon and another 3 days to get back. The reason it is more than 3 days each way for Apollo is that they did not land right away, they went into orbit around the Moon and stayed there for a day or two before landing. After takeoff they also stayed in lunar orbit for another day or two before departing for Earth.

The Moon is about 400,000 km away, but it varies slightly since the Moon's orbit is elliptical.

No space shuttle has never gone through the Van Allen radiation belts. Only the Apollo capsules (and one Gemini) did that.

Answer 3

I presume you are asking for the last manned flight to the moon? You might want to read up on Apollo 17 (see first reference),
essentially, the trip was launched on Dec 7 1972 (05:33:00 UT) and they landed on the moon on Dec 11 1972 (19:54:57 UT) - so that makes it about 110 hours and 21 minutes to get there.

They left the moon around Dec 14 (22:54:37) and splashed onto the ocean surface on Dec 19 (19:24:59) - yep it took longer to come home because they no longer had the big rockets.

The distance of the moon to the earth is not a constant value, but the general estimate is that it is about 384,401 kilometers away. (see second ref).

As to your question about dangerous radiation belts above the earth, I am not sure what belt you are speaking of, in general the moment you get out of Earth's general atmosphere you become at risk to exposure to radiation from the sun and other radiating sources.

Answer 4

The Apollo crafts took just over 3 days to reach the moon. The recent European Space Agency probe took 14 months to reach the moon (it was testing a new propulsion system). An Atlas V rocket carrying the New Horizons probe to Pluto took a quick 9 hours to travel the distance. Light takes an average of 1.28 seconds to close the gap.

Answer 5

4.59 days for the last mission. it took them longer to get back just under 5 days. the trip will vary because of the relative position of the moon to the earth and both to the sun. There are no radiation belts around the earth. But there is the sun and its flares to deal with. and these can be lethal.

Answer 6

6 days

Answer 7

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Answer 8

using the new slush hydrogen jet propulsion it will only take around 50 minutes to reach the moon

Answer 9

Something like 3 days. If I recall.

Answer 10

It all depend upon the vehicle that you take