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This is quite possibly the most sought for question by non believers. It is easily solved for and Avg. rate of speed. the moon is an avg of 238,855 miles from earth...mind you I typed "avg." Now if you take the time from when they stopped their exploration on the moon at 12:14 am on July 21, 1969 to the time they splashed into the pacific at 11:50 am on July 24, 1969 that is roughly 84 hours. Some say that the actual lift off time is later and I would agree that the astronauts would not just hop in the lander and leave. So some say 59 hours. either way its easy math. Just take the distance 238,855 and divide it by either 84 or 59 whichever you like. The speed comes out to some where between 1500-2000mph. This is the travel back of course the shuttle was going much faster when leaving to compensate for the gravity of Earth. So there you have it. It only took a couple of days to come back.

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