Discovery of water on moon boosts prospects for permanent lunar base

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mrstickball said:
It takes 3-4 days to fly to the moon via a conventional rocket. What the heck are you talking about?

Let's go over Apollo 11, shall we?

July 16th - Apollo 11 launches via a Saturn V at 1332 UTC
July 20th - Lunar Module separates from the command module in prep to land on the moon.
July 20th - 2013 UTC, the Lunar Module lands on the moon
July 21st - 0259 UTC, Neil Armstrong comes out of the hatch, and we hear 'One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind'
July 24th - Astronauts splash down near Johnson Atoll

So I think your greatly mistaken on the time it takes to get to the moon.

Now, aboard a space elevator, it would ascend at a rate of 400-600 KMH. This would mean that it would take between 7-10 days to get to the end of the tether, at 100,000 KM above the earth.

It only takes 8 days?

Why did I think months?

*stops being stoopid*