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.
Quick Answer. It takes the moon 27.3 days to make one revolution around the Earth, traveling at a speed of 2,300 miles per hour. The moon takes the same amount of time to make a full rotation on its axis, according to Windows to the Universe. Keep Learning.