how long does it take a space shuttle to reach the moon?
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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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Since its a manned flight, the space craft being heavier, it would take at least eight months or more. However, like correctly pointed out by Christoph... N, it would be a very painful ride for the space passenger. The radiations and the athropy of the muscles & bones would cause a lot of discomfort.
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Not a satellite, since that's something that is in an established orbit, but a space probe, yes.  There's one on the way at the moment.  At full speed, it'll be the fastest traveling manmade object ever, but even at that sort of speed it'll take nine years to get there.
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The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. It has no formal English name other than "the Moon", although it is occasionally called Luna (Latin: moon), or Selene (Greek: moon), to distinguish it from the generic term "moon" (referring to any of the various natural satellites of other planets). Its symbol is a crescent (). The related adjective for the Moon is lunar (again from the Latin root), but this is not found in combination, the combining forms seleno-/-selene (again from the Greek) and -cynthion (from the Lunar deity Cynthia) being used in terms relating to the Moon in various other contexts (e.g. aposelene, selenocentric, pericynthion, etc.).\n\nThe average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,401 kilometres (238,857 mi). The Moon's diameter is 3,476 kilometres (2,160 mi). Reflected sunlight from the Moon's surface reaches Earth in approximately 1.3 seconds (at the speed of light). The Moon is the Solar System's fifth largest moon, both by diameter and mass, ranking behind Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, and Io.\n\nThe Soviet Union's (USSR) Luna program was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned vehicles, or space probes: The first man-made object to escape Earth's gravity and pass near the Moon was Luna 1 in 1959. The first man-made object to impact the lunar surface was Luna 2, also in 1959. The first photographs of the normally occluded far side of the Moon were made by Luna 3 in the same year. The first spacecraft to perform a successful lunar soft landing was Luna 9 in 1966. The first (unmanned) vehicle to orbit the Moon was Luna 10 in 1966.\n\nThe United States' Apollo program achieved the first (and only) manned missions to the Moon: The first manned mission to orbit the Moon was Apollo 8 in 1968, and the first people to land and walk on the Moon came aboard Apollo 11 in 1969. The unsuccessful Soviet manned Moon project was abandoned in 1974. The Moon is the only celestial body other than the Earth upon which humans have set foot.\n\nThe two sides of the Moon\nThe Moon is in synchronous rotation, meaning that it keeps nearly the same face turned toward Earth at all times. Small variations resulting from the finite eccentricity of the lunar orbit, termed optical librations, allow up to about 59% of the lunar surface to be visible from Earth. The side of the Moon that faces Earth is called the near side, and the opposite side is called the far side. The far side should not be confused with the dark side, as the unilluminated hemisphere only corresponds to the far side during full moon. In fact, the far side receives (on average) slightly more sunlight than the near side due to lunar eclipse. Spacecraft are cut off from direct radio communication with Earth when behind the Moon due to line-of-sight propagation. One distinguishing feature of the far side is its almost complete lack of maria (singular: mare), which are the dark albedo features.\n\nOrbit and relationship to Earth\n \nA scale model of Earth and the MoonMain articles: The Moon's orbit and Earth and Moon\nSee also: Libration \nThe Moon makes a complete orbit about the Earth approximately once every 27.3 days. It is at present in its 4th quarter, illuminated by ca. -155% . Unlike most satellites of other planets, the Moon orbits near the ecliptic and not the Earth's equatorial plane.\n\nThe Earth and Moon have many physical effects upon one another, including the tides. Most of the tidal effects seen on the Earth are caused by the Moon's gravitational pull, with a smaller contribution from the Sun. Tidal effects result in an increase of the mean Earth-Moon distance, over long periods of time, of about 4 meters per century. As a result of the conservation of angular momentum, the increasing semimajor axis of the Moon is accompanied by a gradual slowing of the Earth's rotation.\n\nThe Earth-Moon system may be considered to be a double planet rather than a planet-moon system.[3] This is due
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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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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20,1969.  Ten others followed during the next 3 years.
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Outer Space and the Moon expeditions.
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles);
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its to far away. would take 100 years to get there w/ the current space fleet we have there. now if we had nuke space ships that could go 100X's faster and recycle the air then it could be done in 5 years or so. but food and water would be the problem.
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The shuttle needs to reach a speed of 17,500 miles per hour to stay in orbit.
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Not soon enough.\nSince there is no Super-power race for space dominance, it comes down to "will it make a profit".  So, when some industry or company decides they can make a few million bucks, it'll happen.  Until then, don't go looking for tickets for the moon shuttle.
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if we travel at the speed of light, it would take approximately 4.2 years to travel to Proxima Centauri.  Obviuosly, we can't reach that speed.  Space Shuttles can reach a speed of 17,500 mph or 7823.2 m/s.  With this speed, it would take 161059.4 yrs
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The average distance from earth to moon is 238855 miles.
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The shuttle will send supplies and a new crew member to the space station. It will also test the improvements to the external tank designed to fix the foam shedding problem.\n\nAsteroid 2004 XP14 will pass Earth a little farther out than the Moon on July 3.\n\nThese two events are not related at all.
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With the average distance between the Earth and the Moon being 238,857 miles...the total distance of 600 round trips between the Earth and the Moon is approximately 286,628,400 miles.
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Space Shuttle travels about 17,580 mph\n\nEarth to Mars is about 35,000,000 miles (at its closest) so...\n\nabout 1990 hours to get to mars, or around 82.95 days.\n\nHowever, as the previous answerer stated, fuel for that would be almost impossible to do at those speeds, but that wasn't your question, was it?\n\nAll of these numbers are approximates. Hope this helps.
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The average distance from the Moon to the Earth is 384,403 kilometres (238,857 miles