The shuttle rockets are not as powerful as the Saturn 5 rocket.
The Space Shuttle is incapable of traveling to the moon. The only manned spacecraft to travel to the moon was the Apollo spacecraft, which flew 9 lunar missions in the late 1960s and early 70s. Of these lunar missions, 6 successfully landed on the moon. Since Apollo 17 in 1972, no humans have visited the moon. The Apollo spacecraft, however, took about three days to reach the moon.
No, Apollo missions used capsules launched atop Saturn V rockets to reach the Moon. Space shuttles were a different type of spacecraft used by NASA for various missions such as deploying satellites and building the International Space Station.
Space Shuttles are designed only for Earth orbiting missions and none has ever gone to the moon. The first manned space craft to reach the moon (in 1969) was an Apollo program Lunar Lander called Eagle.
The Apollo spacecraft traveled at speeds of about 25,000 miles per hour (40,000 km/h) to reach the Moon and during its return journey to Earth.
The first spacecraft to reach the Moon was the Soviet spacecraft Luna 2, which successfully impacted the lunar surface on September 13, 1959.
The Apollo missions which reached the moon were launched from the Kennedy Space Center. The space shuttle was not designed to reach the moon, but instead orbits the Earth at 200-300 nautical miles.
Apollo 8 was sent to the moon to see if Apollo spacecraft and the Saturn 5 was powerful to reach the moon.orbit it and then return to earth.
The Apollo spacecraft traveled approximately 25,000 miles per hour (40,000 km/h) on its journey to the moon. The spacecraft had to reach this high velocity to escape Earth's gravitational pull and reach the moon.
It took roughly three days to reach the moon.
The space shuttle was designed for low earth orbit (between 200-300 nautical miles) and could not reach the moon.
It takes about 8.5 minutes for a spacecraft to reach outer space from the surface of the Earth. This is known as the "space border," where the Earth's atmosphere transitions into the vacuum of space. Once a spacecraft crosses this boundary, it is considered to be in outer space.
It took the Apollo spacecraft around 3 days (72 hours) to travel from Earth to the moon. The distance from Earth to the moon is approximately 238,855 miles (384,400 km), and the spacecraft travelled at an average speed of about 3,000 miles per hour (4,800 km/h) to reach the moon.