How many marshmallows does it take to reach the moon from earth?
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Approximately 38 billon marshmallows\n\nThe average distance between Earth and Moon is approximately 30 times Earth's diameter.\n\nEarth Mean diameter is 12,742 km \nMoon Mean diameter is 3,476 km\n\nWhen the Moon is at apogee, it is 11% farther from Earth than it is at perigee. \n\nPerigee: 363,300 km \nApogee:  405,500 km \n\nMean distance between Earth and Moon is therefore = 384,400 km = 384,400,000 meters\n\nIf the size of average Marshmallow is 1 cm = 0.01 meter\n\nNumber of Marshmallows between Earth and Moon =\n\n384,400,000 / 0.01 = 384,400,000 x 100 = 38,440,000,000 \n\n~= 38 billion
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The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 kilometers.  Naismith's Rule of Thumb is 5 kilometers/hour.  Assuming the trip from the Earth to the Moon is level, the trip would take 76,880.6 hours (384,403/5) or 3202.4 days or 8.8 years if you traveled 24 hours per day.  If you allow for 6 hours of sleep a day, it would take 4271.1 days or 11.7 years.\n\nIf one was to count the entire distance to the moon as an ascension, this would add 507,338 hours (304,403 *1000 to convert to meters. 304,403,000/300 = 1,014,676 - the number of 1/2 hours to add.  1,014,676/2=507,338 - number of hours).\n\nThis would make the total trip time 584,218 hours or 24,342 days or 66.7 years.\n\nBetter pack a lunch...
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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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Apollos 8, 10-17 travelled to the moon. That's 9x3=27 astronauts. As far as I know there were three astronauts that went twice, so 24 astronauts travelled to the moon.\n\nHere is the list of peaple that *walked* on the moon.\n\n   1. Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July, 1969\n   2. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July, 1969\n   3. Charles "Pete" Conrad - Apollo 12 - November, 1969    4. Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November, 1969\n   5. Alan Shepard - Apollo 14 - February, 1971\n   6. Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February, 1971\n   7. David Scott - Apollo 15 - July, 1971\n   8. James Irwin - Apollo 15 - July, 1971\n   9. John Young - Apollo 16 - April, 1972 \n  10. Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April, 1972\n  11. Eugene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December, 1972 \n  12. Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December, 1972
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There have been a total of 12 people who have set foot on the moon, 2 each from Apollo 11,12,14,15,16 and 17 missions respectively. \n\nThe 12 are as follows:\nNeil Armstrong\nEdwin "Buzz" Aldrin\nPete Conrad\nAlan Bean\nAlan Shepard\nEdgar Mitchell\nDave Scott\nJim Irwin\nJohn Young\nCharles Duke\nGene Cernan\nHarrison Scmitt
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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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It's about 93 million miles. It takes a sunbeam about eight minutes to reach earth once it leaves the sun. The moon, by contrast, is about 240,000 miles away, but I'm not positive about that exact number. I am positive about the sun, though.
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The Apollo missions that had to get to the moon had to hit 25,000 to get out of Earth orbit and for certain maneuvers around the moon. The space shuttle and/or ISS orbits the Earth at speeds between 17,000MPH and 18,000 MPH.\n\nUnmanned Spaceborn:\nHelios probes orbiting the sun hit 252,800 km/h in 1974.\n\nManned Airborn:\nOct. 3, 1967, the X-15A-2, piloted by Major William J. Pete' Knight, went Mach 6.7 (4,520 m.p.h.) above the Mojave Desert. Record stood until broken by the Space Shuttle in 1980. Highest altitude reached by X-15A was 354,200 ft.\n\nThe fastest air-breathing, manned vehicle, the SR-71, achieved slightly more than Mach 3 back in 1964. Chuck Yeager hit Mach 1 in 1947 with the X-1.\n\nUnmanned Airborn:\nRecently the unmanned speed record (in proximity to the earth anyway) was broken. The X43A hit Mach 9.6+. Scramjets are thought to be capable of hitting Mach 15+.\nexternal link\n\nManned Ground:\nMach 1.016 in the "ThrustSSC" by Andy Green in 1997.\nexternal link\n\nUnmanned Ground:\nA rocket sled hit Mach 8.5 (unmanned)
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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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The moon is 238,900 miles from the earth.
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The Moon has a surface area of 152 million square kilometers.\nThe Earth is 13.5 times larger.
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According to NASA: 385,000 kilometers (239,227.9 miles) with an accuracy of better than one part in 10 billion (from the center of the earth to the center of the moon)\n\nhttp://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/SEhelp/ApolloLaser.html\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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The question is.......how many licks does it take to get to you?
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Here is a quick page of info for ya. Hopes this helps.\n\nhttp://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/space/moon.htm
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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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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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You might as well ask how to get to the moon?\nThere are twenty main titles before you can start choosing the detail?