Joe is Vanguard's global chief economist and head of Vanguard Investment Strategy Group. He's also a member of the senior portfolio management team in Vanguard Fixed Income Group.
Apollo missions took about three days to reach the moon. But the quickest trip to the moon was the New Horizons probe, which zipped past the moon in just 8 hours 35 minutes on its way to Pluto. However, the spacecraft didn't even slow down or approach lunar orbit. Tidal forces.
The Moon takes one circle around the Earth in a little less than 27 days and 8 hours. But since the Moon is circling the Earth while the Earth is circling the Sun, the time iâ¦t takes the Moon to go from full moon to the next full moon (a lunar month, so to speak) is about 29 1/2 days (29 days, 12 hours and 44 minutes).