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The flight time to the Moon for the Apollo missions (1968-1972) was about 3 days.

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The standard answer is that it took Apollo 11 - 3 days to get to the moon. The only problem that I have with that is that NASA also claims that the capsule was traveling approximately 15,000 MPH. The simple Rate x Time = Distance is all we need to check that.

But Doing the math doesn’t add up:

252,088 Mi➗15,000 MPH=16.8 hrs

So that math indicates that it should have taken 16 hrs and 48 minutes to get there.

At 3 Days (72 hrs) a different rate of speed is calculated.

252,088Mi ➗72hrs = 3,500 mph

I’m not proclaiming that they didn’t actually go, but why doesn’t the facts match up with the check math? 🤔

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