Why Can Not Rocket Go Directly To Moon Without Revolving The Earth?

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Why Can Not Rocket Go Directly To Moon Without Revolving The Earth?

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Answer 1

I am not a rocket scientist!

I am not sure they always go into earth orbit but if they do it may be necessary in order to get to the best flight path to the moon. Maybe conditions for blast off from earth are not compatible with direct shot to moon.

Answer 2

The earth has a gravitational pull which includes the moon (thats why it revolves around the earth and not the sun) so the rocket is also in the earths pull so it can jut go straight to the moon and there another long explanation that goes with this but its way to complicated to type

Answer 3

I was first thinking that rocket go on moon directly but here the discussion panel disclose many things. I am going to get writers services for preparing some research papers on this topic in order to share with my friends.

Answer 4

It's because the Earth spins round once every 24 hours, but it takes about 40 hours to reach the moon. So by the time you get there the Earth would of spun round almost twice. Hope I've helped you! ;)

Answer 5

I believe it is because it is theoretically possible to go directly to the moon, but it would take way more fuel than is practical to carry in a rocket. The more fuel the rocket carries, the heavier the rocket is, so the less efficient each unit of fuel is. When the rocket goes into Earth orbit, the gravitational field of the Earth is doing the work of keeping the thing going at about 18,000 mi/hr.

It's kind of like the unmanned probes NASA sent to the outer planets. They had to time each one just right so they could use the gravitational field of each planet (mainly the heavy outer planets) to "whipsaw" the probe around and on to the next planet. See en.wikipedia.org