How many cups of sugar does it really take to get to the moon?
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You can't get to the moon with SUGAR!!! You need 22 cups of fairy magic.
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Mass of moon\n-------------------- ------------------- =\nMass of earth's atmosphere\n\n73 800 000 000 000 000 000\n-------------------- ------------------- =\n5 700 000 000 000 000\n\n≈13000 (nearest thousand)
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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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eat a teaspoon of sugar
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 km (2,160 miles).
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With or without stopping to ask for directions?\n\nIf the moon is (on average) 185,000 miles away and you drive 70 miles an hour, you'll get there in about 2600 hours, or somewhere around 110 days.\n\nRemember the moon is also moving, so you'll have to aim for the point in space where the moon will be when you get there ... and you'd better be going faster than 70 mph when you get there because the Moon won't wait up -- it's revolving around the Earth much faster than that.
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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
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The question is.......how many licks does it take to get to you?
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal name other than "The Moon", although in English it is occasionally called Luna (Latin for moon), or Selene (Greek for moon), to distinguish it from the generic "moon" (natural satellites of other planets are also called moons). Its symbol is a crescent. The terms lunar, selene/seleno-, and -cynthion (from the Lunar deities Selene and Cynthia) refer to the Moon (aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).\n\nThe average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light).\n\nThe first man-made object to land on the Moon was Luna 2 in 1959, the first photographs of the otherwise occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year, and the first people to land on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969.
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A remote control camera was mounted on the leg of the lunar lander on each of the six moon landings.\n\n1) 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?  Who took the video of Neil Armstrong? \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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Not anytime soon, no. First, we have to send people back to the moon and then do manned missions to Mars before we can go that far into the solar system!
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It takes a lot of energy to break out of Earth orbit, and thus takes a lot of fuel.  Just to get to the moon, it took a giant, 3 stage, Saturn V rocket.\n\nThe space shuttle was specifically designed to be used in Earth orbit and thus could not carry near enough fuel to escape Earth's gravitational pull.
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Outer space...and to the moon.
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238,855 miles give or take a couple miles (seriously, it varies)\n\nI used Frink to look it up.  Frink is an incredibly handy calculation tool on the web.\n\n\nWikipedia says the moon is an average distance of 238,857 miles from the earth. I just checked with it to verify the accuracy of Frink, which looks pretty good.\n\nNeither the moon nor the Earth are perfectly round.  In fact, the Earth is kind of pear-shaped and has some rather high mountain ranges on its surface.\n\nAfter you are done doing serious analysis of the moon you should play around with Frink; it is pretty amazing and has built-in constants defined in it for all kinds of measurements having to do with the earth and moon. It also makes it very easy to convert values to different units of measurement.
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The shuttle can't go to the moon.  It has never been.  It does not have the rocket energy to break the gravitational pull of the earth and reach a speed of approximately 25,000 mph to leave the earth!\n\nThe Apollo spacecraft would leave the earth at a velocity close to 25,000mph  and rapidly lose speed as they approached the moon.  At a precise point in the trajectory, the earth's gravitational field and the moon's would be equal their speed would be about 3000mph, and after that point, the moon began accelerating them toward itself until they fired the rockets and dropped into a lunar orbit!  The journey from Earth to moon using that method, is about 3 days.\n\nBTW, the max speed of the shuttles in LEO (low earth orbit) has probably never exceeded 18,000mph!  A LEO of 100 miles requires a speed of 17,500mph to stay in that LEO.\n\nAnd to the one that said it would take 10 hours, don't plan on being a physics major!  Leaving the earth's gravitational field is like throwing a rock to infinity.  Once it reaches infinity, the speed is zero.  When it leaves the earth it is doing 25,000mph but rapidly loses speed thereafter departing!
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How far is it from Earth to the moon?\nIt is about 250,000 miles from Earth to the moon.
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Not, it is a derivative of moon land, in actual fact no one can reach the moon. NASA reach moon, it was a plant but not a moon. Even now they sent two sat's to sun....are you believe they manage to reach the sun.\n\n1) Because, your teacher teach you that there is a person reach the moon from NASA. \n\n2) But my grand mother say that there is her grandma sit down in the moon, prepare dinner for me. \n\nabove two item which one is true?....you need marks to pass the exam. So you begin to believe the teacher....on the other hand my grandma want's me to take a dinner with full happiness. that she would like to say my dinner from the moon. \n\nfrom the above two information, which you choose to predict to your teach.\n\nMy conclusion is that every thing can be done by human. why you want to predict the teacher that the NASA actually land on the moon. so don't think too much to predict the teacher....try to follow their instruction...once you reach as a scientist. Then you think toomuch like me......\n\nYoung scientist.