Earth To The Moon?

Question

How long does it take for the space shuttle to reach the Moon, from the Earth?

Answer 1

Never, the space shuttle is not capable of doing so.

Answer 2

The Space Shuttle does not travel to the moon. The navigation and life support systems are capable of such a trip. However, once in orbit, the Space Shuttle has only it's OMS (Orbital Manuvering System) engines. These are not powerful enough for a trip to the moon.

It took roughly three days for the Apollo spacecraft to travel from the Earth to the Moon. The first landing was in 1969. There were five more after that.

Answer 3

This question sums up the ignorance of people that go on and on about the moon landings being faked, when they have no idea what they are talking about.

The shuttle is not designed to go beyond Earth's orbit.

In round figures, you only need to boost a rocket to around 5 miles/sec to get into orbit.

To go beyond, you have to reach Earth's escape velocity, which is around 7 miles/sec.

That may not seem a lot more, but in terms of fuel it is massive. The shuttle cannot carry that fuel. The giant Saturn V that was used for Apollo could.

For heaven's sake, all the stupid little kids that are listening to garbage about faked moon landings, go read the history and the science of the Apollo missions.

Baseless opinion is the realm of gross ignorance.

Answer 4

The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,399 kilometres (238,854 mi), which is about 30 times the diameter of the Earth. At this distance, it takes sunlight reflected from the lunar surface approximately 1.3 seconds to reach Earth. The Moon's diameter is 3,474 kilometres (2,159 mi), which is about 3.7 times smaller than the Earth.
Depending on how fast the space shuttle was traveling would depend on the time. I do not know exact times but you can look at this site for more info.

Answer 5

We don't know...Nobody has ever been to the moon yet...