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The first people who went on the moon took 3 days to get there. Apollo 8 launched on December 21, 1968. They reached the moon on Christmas Eve December 24th. Unmanned rockets have reached the moon in as little as 9 hours. The reason it took 3 days for the astronauts to get there was for fuel economy. If they got there any faster, they would see so much fuel to slow themselves down that it would be unfeasable to send them there.

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It took the Apollo 11 astronauts approximately 3 days to travel from Earth to the moon in 1969. They traveled at an average speed of about 3,000 miles per hour.

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