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.
It takes astronauts about three days to travel from Earth to the moon in a spacecraft. This journey includes launch, travel time, and lunar orbit insertion before landing on the moon.
It took the astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission approximately three days to reach the moon in 1969. They launched from Earth on July 16, 1969, and landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.
No astronauts have died on the moon. All astronauts who have traveled to the moon returned safely to Earth.
The craft that took astronauts to the moon was called the Apollo spacecraft. It consisted of the command module, service module, and lunar module. The lunar module, known as the "LEM," was specifically designed to land on the moon's surface.
The statement that astronauts on the Moon are weightless is true.