What is the Shortest way to the moon?
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Well,one possible way,in the disntant future,we may be able to make wormholes.This is a shortcut through space and time in which we could get to the moon extremely quickly.Picture a flat piece of paper.If there are dots on both sides of the paper,you would think the fastest way is a straight line.But a wormhole means you would fold the paper in half and it would be much quicker to get there.The two dots are right next to each other.That path would be a wormhole.It's a lot easier to see rather than write,but thats basically it.
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Probably the biggest problem facing us right now is solar radiation.  In earth orbit you are fine, the magenetic field of the earth protects us.  Going to the Moon is a bit riskier, as you are outside the field for a bit of time.  If the sun is a bit crany while you going to the moon, well you are dead.\n\nThat pales into comparison to really going places.  If you want to go to Mars you will definately need to solve this problem.  The Moon missions were short enough that the odds were good for nothing happening, the Mars trips are so long that the sun will definately send some high eneregy radiation your way.
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Mean Distance of Moon from Earth - 238,712 mi (384,400 km)\nGreatest Distance of Moon from Earth (Apogee) - 252,586 mi (406,740 km) Shortest Distance of Moon from Earth (Perigee) - 221,331 mi (356,410 km)
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Of course the Moon is closer than the Sun.\n\nThe average distance from the earth to the sun, the semimajor axis of its orbit, is 149,597,890 km.\n\nMoon's orbit is elliptical: its average orbital radius is 384401 km, apogee (farthest distance from the Earth) is 406700 km, and perigee (distance of closest approach to the Earth) is 356400 km.
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33.3 lbs\n\nThe moon's gravity is 1/6 that of earth.
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The trick is to remember that we want only the one way time for the radar signal ---\n\nRound trip time is 2.7 seconds. One way trip time is 1.35 seconds.\n\n1.35 seconds times the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second) = 404,719,818.3 meters to the moon\n\n404,719,818.3 meters = 404719.8183 kilometers to the moon
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The Moon, and you. Both appear to be so far away, however.
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land parcels on the moon
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Even though the moon is 238,000 miles away in a straight line; it will take several days to reach the moon in a rocket using todays technology. This is because a rocket does not fly in a straight line between earth and the moon - such a trajectroy would require a phenomenal amount of speed and fuel. Rockets fly into orbit, circle the earth several times, and gradually alter their orbit to an orbit which intersects with the moon blah blah blah...\n\nThe international space station is about 220 miles above the earth, and it takes two days to reach it on a space rocket. The rocket has to fly many times around the earth and gradually intercept the ISS.
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depends on its speed. apollo 13 took bout 4 days to reach the moon and 3 days to return back. y? u plannin to go?
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Around 234,000 miles from the moon, average of 93.5 million miles (one Astronomical Unit{AU}) to the Sun. The extremes are (if in Northern Hemisphere) 92 million miles in winter, and 95 million miles in summer.
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It depends on what you are sending.  The Apollo missions were the last set of *manned* missions to the moon, and here is the travel time:\nLaunched: 16 July 1969 UT 13:32:00 (09:32:00 a.m. EDT)<br />\nLanded on Moon: 20 July 1969 UT 20:17:40 (04:17:40 p.m. EDT)\nIt took about 4 days to get there.  Rocket technology has not change too much since then so you can expect that getting people to the moon at this point would take about the same amount of time.\nIf you are dealing with a non-human payload, you may be able to cut down time, both because it is likely lighter, and because you don't need to worry as much about damaging G-forces.\nI've included a link that has the history of all missions to the moon, manned and unmanned.
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Ok here it goes: The distance to the moon is 384,401km The length of a twinkie is 9.9cm. There are 100,000cm in 1km. That means there are 10,101 twinkies per km. So the distance to the moon 384,401 multiplied by the number of twinkies in a km 10,101 would equal 3,882,834,501. \n\nSo you need 3,882,834,501 twinkies to reach the moon.
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I assume this question involves using common sugar (sucrose) are the fuel.\n\nThe answer would depend on how you are extracting the energy out of the sugar as well as just how large of a mass (rocket + ...) you want to move to the moon.\nYour question is far too vague (and meaningless) without A LOT more details.
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the space shuttle is basically designed to place satellites in orbit and is not for going to the moon. if it could it would take approx 2 to 3 days. in the 60's when we actually could go to moon the apollo program used massive saturn five rockets just to get out of earth orbit. nasa are currently working on a new rocket based moon  program. try www.nasa.com for more info.
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles); it is slowly moving away at about the same rate as your fingernails grow (about 4 cm a year).
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The moon's distance from earth is about 240,000 miles.  The orbit is roughly circular (only 5% eccentricity), so 2π*240,000 = 1.5 million miles is the circumference.  The moon travels this distance in 29.5 days, so its speed is about 51,000 miles per day or about 2100 miles per hour.