how long does it take to get to the moon on a space shuttle?

Answer 1

You cant get to the moon on an orbiter--which is what they use now-- but if you went back to the time of the Saturn V (5) I think it took about 2 days, though now technology is improved, when we go back to the moon it will prob take about a day!

Answer 2

The Space Shuttle does not go to the Moon. It goes no further than about 250 miles above the Earth into what is called low Earth orbit. It is not capable of going much higher than this. The Moon is 269,000 miles from the Earth or roughly 1000 times as far. The trip to the Moon by the Apollo spacecraft took about 3 days.

Answer 3

You know how the Space Shuttle has a payload bay? It's really big - it can hold 40,000 pounds of stuff. They open it up once they get onto orbit.

You could put 20 tons of rocket propellant in that payload bay and then use it to push the Shuttle as far into space as it could go.

Unlike what we've seen in some tachnically-bad science fiction movies, the Shuttle with all the fuel it could possibly carry would only get 600 miles from earth's surface. That's only 1/400 of the way to the moon. (remember, you filled that payload bay entirely with "fuel" and nothing else!)

Answer 4

The Space Shuttle is not designed to go, and has never gone, to the moon.

The Apollo spacecraft took 3 days to get to the moon after it left Earth's orbit.
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Answer 5

forever, it's not made for anything but orbital flight