How long does it take to get from earth to the moon?

Answer 1

100 years

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at a walking speed of 2.5 mph walking 24hrs per day you would cover 60 miles a day

the moon is ~240kmi away so

240000mi/60mi/day = 4000 days = 10.96 years

Answer 2

The only speed limit in space is the speed of light, 186,000 miles per second.

Astronauts traveling from the Earth to the Moon are limited by the amount of fuel that they can carry, which doesn't let them go very fast at all. If they had unlimited fuel, they could accelerate halfway to the moon and decelerate the rest of the way, and land on the moon an hour after they left.

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like we will be able to build such spacecraft any time soon.

Answer 3

The moon orbits around the earth in approximately 27.3 days. Therefore full moon happens approximately once per month (but not exactly as can be seen from the 27.3 days)

The speed of the moon's orbit is a little more than 1 km per second (1.023 km/s)

Answer 4

Well the moon orbits the Earth at around 1.022 Km/s. The Earth orbits the Sun at around 29.783 km/s. After that, the Solar System revolves around the Galactic centre at around 220 km/s. From there, who knows. Our galaxy is moving away from the reference point known as the CMB [See Link] at 552 km/s.

So if you get picked up for a speeding ticket - don't quote me!!!!

Answer 5

Space craft don't travel in a straight line. But the whole point of this question is to illustrate
the moon's distance from earth, so we'll consider a straight-line trip.

The center-to-center average distance between the earth and moon is 238,856 miles.

Since we're going to drive from the earth's surface to the moon's surface, not between their centers,
let's subtract off the radius of the earth and the radius of the moon.

Earth's radius . . . 3,963 miles
Moon's radius . . . 1,079 miles

Surface-to-surface average distance . . . 233,814 miles

Time required to drive it @ 45 mph . . . (233,814 / 45) = 5,195.86 hours

= 216.5 days.

An awful long time to be cooped up in the car with the kids !

Answer 6

Ignoring the fact that it would be impossible even if you were there ON the moon ...

It would still depend on how fast you walk, whether you like to stop and look around, etc.

Approaching the question as nothing more than a generic, sterile math exercise . . .

-- The moon's diameter is 3,474 km (2,159 miles) (average of equatorial and polar)

-- Circumference = (pi) x (diameter) = 10,914 km (6,783 miles)

-- Concerning your walking speed . . . you didn't specify it, so I'll pick one: 4 miles per hour.

-- 6,783/4 = 1,696 hours = 70days 16hours

Answer 7

The mean distance of the moon from the earth is about 238,855 miles. At 70 mph it would take 3412.21 hours, or 142 days, 4 hours, 12 minutes and 51.428736 seconds (approximately!)

Answer 8

The moon travels at about 2288 miles per hour (3683 kilometers per hour)

Answer 9

It depends on how fast you walk. The circumference of the moon is 6,790 miles so if you walked at 3 miles an hour it would take about 2263.33 hours or about 94.3 days.

Answer 10

-- Once in 27.32 days.

-- About 2,280 miles per hour, relative to the center of the Earth.