How far along are they in completing the elevator to the moon in South America?
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The construction is in a pretty advanced stage and should be done by 2009.
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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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They are American, and have been on the moon.
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how many ladders does it take to reach the sky ???????
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126 in space 12 have walked on the moon
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles
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33.3 lbs\n\nThe moon's gravity is 1/6 that of earth.
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Outer Space and the Moon expeditions.
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1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.\n\nApollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean\nApollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>\nApollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell\nApollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin\nApollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke\nApollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt\n\n\n2) Why haven't we been back?  \n\na) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.\n\nb) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't.  Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.\n\nc) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?\n\n\n3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts?  Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?\n\nThe existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos.  Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA. \n\nThe radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong.  You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness.  And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection.  "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."\n\n"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation."  When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.\n\n\n4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?  \n\nIn 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.\n\nIf six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!\n\n\n5) What about the USSR?  \n\nEven if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.\n\n\n6) Why does the flag shake?  Where are the stars?\n\nTake a look at the first two websites listed below.  They deal well with all of the technical questions.\n\n\n7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?
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none *in* the moon, but 12 have landed *on* the moon.\n\nsee link below for pix of the famous 12.
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It depends on how fast your spaceship can travel and the flight path that you use. The distance to travel 385,000 km \n\nThe first man made object that got to the moon was the Russian Luna 2. It impacted with the Moon and scattered Russian pennants on the Lunar surface. The flight duration was 33.5 hours\n\nThe Apollo missions were a bit slower because the spacecraft first had to reconfigure in earth orbit and then had to brake as they approached the moon. Flight duration to the moon just over 60 hours.\n\nAt this stage there are no spaceships, on earth, capable of getting a human to the moon. So if you start tomorrow with a huge budget you should get there in four or five years.
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yes, it is still in space. For more detailed information about the mission, where it went and what's going on now, check out the following website.
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“Buzz” Aldrin\n\n\nSix hours after landing at 4:17 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining), Neil A. Armstrong took the “Small Step” into our greater future when he stepped off the Lunar Module, named “Eagle,” onto the surface of the Moon, from which he could look up and see Earth in the heavens as no one had done before him.\n\nHe was shortly joined by “Buzz” Aldrin, and the two astronauts spent 21 hours on the lunar surface and returned 46 pounds of lunar rocks. After their historic walks on the Moon, they successfully docked with the Command Module “Columbia,” in which Michael Collins was patiently orbiting the cold but no longer lifeless Moon.
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The Earth's circumference is 23,627 miles or about 24,000 miles and the average distance between the Earth and the Moon is 238,900 or about 240,000 miles.  If the students are learning the metric system, the figures are 38,025 km or about 38,000 km for the Earth's circumference and 384,400 km for the average Earth-Luna distance.
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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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The space station is located in orbit around the Earth at an altitude of approximately 360 km (220 miles), a type of orbit usually termed low Earth orbit (The actual height varies over time by several kilometres due to atmospheric drag and reboosts) It orbits Earth in a period of about 92 minutes; by June 2005 it had completed more than 37,500 orbits since launch of the Zarya module on November 20 1998.
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You might as well ask how to get to the moon?\nThere are twenty main titles before you can start choosing the detail?