• Question: how long dose it take to go to the moon on a rocket?

    Asked by zahraa to Alex, Jools, Lynz, Matt, Rika on 21 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Matthew Dickinson

      Matthew Dickinson answered on 21 Jun 2011:

      The time Apollo 11 took to cover the distance to the Moon is .

      12 mins from launch to Earth orbit., followed by
      2 hrs 38 mins to complete 1.5 orbits, then
      73 hrs 5 mins to reach Moon orbit, and a further
      26 hrs 50 mins of orbiting and descent before touchdown of the Lunar Module occured

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