As there are no runways on the moon´s surface,how do astronauts manage to take off and come back to earth?

Question

There are no airports or aerodromes on the surface of the moon ,how then do astronauts manage to take off and return back to earth?

Answer 1

Giant moon gnomes lift up the spaceships and throw them into orbit.

Answer 2

Same way that they got there. The spaceship makes a vertical take-off by being placed on full power, till it exceeds the escape velocity needed for the Moon (which is only a fraction of that needed for the earth, as the Moon has much lower gravity than the earth, so not having the main, more powerful rocket with which they left earth - which was jettisoned - any more, is not a disadvantage),

All that may be necessary is sufficient velocity to dock with an orbiting craft and climb aboard it, and the return journey proper starts from moon orbit. not from the moon's surface, In the 1969 trip Armstrong and Aldrin went down to the Moon in a smaller landing craft whilst Collins stayed in orbit in the command module.

Escape velocity of the Earth = 11.186 kilometres/second
Escape velocity of the Moon = 2.38 kilometres/second

Answer 3

There is video of the first astronauts to land on the moon looking around for a good place to land (straight down). The video was shot from the landing module and you see the ship travelling horizontally above the surface until a smooth, even place was found to plop down on.

Answer 4

Runways are required for winged aircraft that fly in the earth's atmosphere. As there is no air on the moon, wings and runways are of no use.

The lunar landing craft landed and took off vertically using rocket propulsion.

Did you really not know this, or are you pulling our collective leg?

Answer 5

The LM (Lunar Module) took off straight up just like any other rocket launch. Runway? We don't need no stinking runways!

Furthermore, because there is no air on the moon, fixed wing aircraft cannot fly on the moon. So, it is doubtful that we will ever see runways, as such, on the moon.

Answer 6

Astronaughts never landed on the moon. It was all staged by the then US President Nixon, so that the Americans could win the space race.

They will try to land on the moon again in 10 years or so, and I bet that the mission is a failure.

Answer 7

Rockets go up vertically. Have you seen one blast off? They don't fly like airplanes.

They land vertically on the moon. The rockets point down and lower the lunar modules down until they contact the surface. They don't land on wheels, they land on pads that support the lander and keep it from sinking into the lunar dust. [1]

;-D Lunar dust gets on everything. They say it smells like burned gunpowder! [2]

Answer 8

The reason that runways are necessary on earth is because aircraft have to work extra hard to overcome the pull of gravity. The length of the runway is enough time for the aircraft to gather enough speed/power to do that.

The moon has very little gravity. Any craft leaving its surface doesn't have to work nearly as hard as it does on earth.

Answer 9

Man you are a genius. This is the definitive proof that all the moon landings were staged somewhere in the SE USA.

You should write a book!!!!!!

Answer 10

They actually catapulted the craft to the moon after tieing it with a string.
When they wanted to leave they just pulled it from Earth.

Answer 11

Newton's often stated-yet-misstated third law. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Believe it or not, when you push on something (which is known as exerting a force), it pushes back. It's to say, when you're speeding down the freeway and hit a fly, you exert the exact same amount of force on the fly that it exerts on your car.

Spaceships fly by burning fuel that shoots out of its rear. The spaceship pushes on the explosive outburst, and the explosive outburst pushes back on the spaceship.