time to fly to the moon

[driverdale1]

please settle an argument....how long did it take the american astronots?...to get to the moon, cheers

[yassa]

They didn't, the Van Allen belt would have fried them all, they drove to Arizona and filmed it there.

[shero101]

It took 4 days. Apollo 11 launched July, 16 1969. Landed on the moon July 20th.

Read more about it -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

By the way what's an astronot ?

[kempie]

The time Apollo 11 took to cover the distance to the Moon is actually quite a bit shorter.

12 mins from launch to Earth orbit., followed by
2 hrs 38 mins to complete 1.5 orbits, then
73 hrs 5 mins to reach Moon orbit, and a further
26 hrs 50 mins of orbiting and descent before touchdown of the Lunar Module occured.

[stokeace]

well yassa does that mean all the space shuttle astronauts have been fried in the van allen belt?just a question.........................................................

[yassa]

Space shuttles fly to the moon do they?
Ok then, when Mr Armstrong gives his little speach decending the ladder, who is filming him from a distance?
Why when the eagle is landing do you not hear the retro rockets? The USA were in a space race war with the Russians and needed to seen as being ahead. With telescopes these days you would be able to see what they left behind, cus the other way round, i have seen my car from space on the internet. Looking forward to your answers.

[kempie]

yassa - you've seen your car from the Moon?

Satellite imagery is taken at an altitude of around 200 miles. The Moon is more than 1000 times further away.

The satellite/aerial image of your car "on the internet" would have been at around 0.6-1 metre resolution.

The Hubble Telescope has an optical resolution of .085 arcseconds for visible light which gives a resolution at the Moon's surface of about 150 metres. You need better than 50 metres resolution to be able to detect a town.

Here is a 100 metre resolution image of the Alps. How many cars can you spot?

[jake-the-peg]

Well yassa I am impressed, You seem to know more about the Van Allen belts than James Van Allen did!

He dismissed this idea.

They got quite a small dose.

However they were lucky - if there had been a major solar erruption whilst they were in transit they could have all been killed whilst they were outside the Van Allen Belts. The odds of this on a quick trip lasting only a few days were acceptably small.

Spending a year on a trip to Mars is substantially different!

All the old conspiracy theory questions and answers are tired so I won't go into them - you know them as well as I do.

But the best proof I know of the landing is the laser reflectors left on 2 of the trips - generations of physicists have used them to measure the distance of the moon to tiny distances.

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/21jul_ llr.htm

This French group use them extensively
http://wwwrc.obs-azur.fr/cerga/laser/laslune/e nglishintro.htm

Are the French in on it too?

[yassa]

So the whole of your evidence depends on the integrity of the Americans and the FRENCH, nuff said. lol

[jake-the-peg]

No we have hundreds of scientists world-wide that have used that facility, then there are the guys in Joderal Bank (that's in England) and at Parks (Australia) that tracked the spacecraft.

For this to be a conspiracy it would require the involvement of thousands if not tens of thousands of people world-wide.

Then we have the whole Apollo 13 affair - to explain that in the conspiracy theory you have to do even more ridiculous logic gymnastics.

If it had any shred of credibility don't you think the Russians would have shouted "foul"? - they do know one or two things about it!

Do yourself a favour and jump on the "Elvis Lives" bandwaggon it's got a better chance of turning out to be true than this pile of pooh!

[yassa]

Jake, calm down mate, you'll give yerself a hernia.... And Elvis lives near me, i bought his Honda C90 off him back last year and the git knew the carb was gone for a burton but he wouldn't give me my money back... As for the moon, i see what your saying, your evidence is strong but so is it the other way round, go see for yourself... Not all conspiracys are such, some have to be true, it stands to reason and if it wasn't for people like me, how could people like yourself vent your feelings?

[idalovett]

I think this is a repeat of this thread.....even down to yassa's now duplicated comments on a post in the following link.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/History/Questio n300018.html