• Question: How long would it take to land on the moon, or get to space?

    Asked by Kitcat to Ryan on 26 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Ryan Cheale

      Ryan Cheale answered on 26 Jun 2015:


      So for the space shuttle to get into orbit it takes around 8-12 minutes, up isn’t that far in reality but the amount of speed we need to do that is insane!It reaches 17500 miles an hour in that time though!

      for apollo it took 3 days to reach the moon, but for the new horizons satillite took only 8 hours! But the satillite didn’t need to slow down or approach at the right angle.

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