How long does it take to come back from the moon?

Answer 1

The Apollo 11 astronauts were launched July 16th 1969 at 08:32:00 am EST from Kennedy Space Centre. They reached the Moon when they performed a Lunar Orbit Insertion (LOI) manoeuvre July 19th 12:21:50 pm EST. It took them 3 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes to fly to the Moon. The astronauts took almost 3 days to return to earth.

The Apollo 13 astronauts were launched April 11th 1970 at 2:13:00 pm EST from the Kennedy Space Centre. They flew around the Moon and landed in the Pacific Ocean April 17th 1:07:41 pm EST. It took them 5 days, 22 hours, 54 minutes to fly to the Moon and back to the Earth.

The NASA Pluto probe New Horizons flew from the surface of the Earth to the Moon's orbital path in eight hours and thirty-five minutes in January 2006. The ESA SMART-1 lunar probe used an ion engine to fly to the Moon. It was launched September 27th 2003 and was slowly spiralling away from the Earth to the Moon. November 11th 2004 it was captured by the Moon's gravity - after one year, one month and two weeks. These two missions did not return to earth.

Answer 2

That depends on the speed you are traveling.

If you are traveling at the speed of light 1.3 seconds.

If you travelled in an Apollo rocket it took about 3 days there and 3 days back.

Answer 3

The Apollo moon missions took three days to travel from the earth to the moon.

Answer 4

From the Earth to the Moon = 3 Earth days.

From the Moon to the Earth = 3 Earth days.

Total = 6 Earth days.