2006-10-04 11:58:20 · 8 answers · asked by Lauren C. 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It would depend on the size of the rocket.
2006-10-04 12:00:43 · answer #1 · answered by An Unhappy Yahoo User 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's an interesting question. Let's say you had a rocket that had plenty of fuel and could accelerate as long as you wanted as much as you wanted and you want to take holiday makers to your moon hotel ( nobody has a rocket like that at the moment but you can always dream...). You don't have to worry about any curved paths you just compute the trajectory to end up where the moon is going to be when you get there and you just want to make sure that your passengers get there quickly and fairly comfortably.
If you started off from the surface of the earth with an acceleration of 1g it would feel as though the passengers weighed twice as much ( one g from the eaths attraction and an extra g due to the acceleration relative to the center of the earth, this might be a bit uncomfortable for pregnant women and old people so lets assume a 1/2 g acceleration to start with. You could hold it at that value until you got near the halfway point between the earth and the moon , flip the rocket over and start reducing the acceleration so that you reached the moon hotel at 1.5 moon g , then when you landed there would not be a big change in the passengers feeling of weight. The moon is about 385000 kilometers away on average but some times it's nearer and sometimes it's farther away , also exactly where you take-off on earth or land on the moon would make a bit of difference but you should be able to make the trip in about 4 hours.
2006-10-04 20:08:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The problem you ask has no simple solution such as D=RT. In order to shoot a rocket to the moon you must first accelerate beyond the Earth's escape velocity. Then you have to tell us if you plan to crash right into the center of the Moon, make a soft landing upon the Moon's surface, or just circle around it. Each answer has a different solution in travel time.
Please provide more information as to your planned moon rocket mission.
2006-10-04 19:14:19 · answer #3 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apollo rockets took 3 days. The recently launched rocket to Pluto passed the Moon in only 9 hours because it was going a lot faster. It has to go that fast to get to Pluto in "only" 9 years.
2006-10-04 21:13:43 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It took the Apollo missions about three days to travel from Earth orbit to Moon orbit. It's quite far; it's like going 10 times around the equator, each way.
2006-10-04 19:01:43 · answer #5 · answered by poorcocoboiboi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Apollo missions took an average of 3 days.
2006-10-04 21:45:14 · answer #6 · answered by That one guy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i dont know but i will try it out some time (anybody got a spare rocket i can borrow?)
2006-10-04 19:26:10 · answer #7 · answered by J 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Moon moves, it can't be a straight trajectory
2006-10-04 19:01:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋