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In a previous episode, I talked about how long it takes spacecraft to fly from the Earth to Mars. The Moon is much closer, so how long does it take spacecraft, possibly containing humans, to make the journey? The Moon orbits at an average distance of 384,000 kilometers. If you drove the distance from the Earth to the Moon at highway speeds, it would take you about 145 days of solid driving. Too long? Car won't fly through space? No problem! Rockets can get you going much faster. The first spacecraft to make the run was the Soviet Luna 1 probe. It completed a flyby in 1959. Luna 1 wasn't trying to get into orbit. It was there to whiz past the Moon and take a few pictures as it went. It completed the journey in only 36 hours, traveling at a speed of 10,500 kilometers per hour. If a spacecraft is trying to actually achieve lunar orbit, it needs to approach a little slower. Luna 10, also a Soviet craft, was the first to go into orbit around the Moon. It launched on March 31, 1966, and reached the Moon 4 days later. The Apollo 11 astronauts launched on July 16, 1969, and arrived at the Moon 3 days later. They followed a similar trajectory to Luna 10, since their goal was to go into lunar orbit. As there's harmful radiation in space, it's best to minimize the travel time for human astronauts. Spacecraft can go much slower too. When the European Space Agency's Smart-1 spacecraft made the journey, it used an advanced ion engine drive. This engine produces a minute amount of thrust, and as a result it uses just a tiny amount of fuel. It launched on November 27th, 2003, and took more than 13 months to complete the journey, using only 82 kilograms of xenon propellant for its entire mission, crashing in 2006. The quickest time to get from the Earth to the Moon has to be NASA's New Horizons spacecraft. Although its final destination is Pluto in 2015, New Horizons flew past the Moon traveling at 58,000 km/hour. It made the journey in only 8 hours and 35 minutes. So If you're just doing a flyby, you can make the trip in a few hours. If you want to go into orbit, give yourself a few days. And if you're just out on a jaunt, you can go ahead and take more than a year. Just keep that in mind when you're packing for your future lunar holiday.
