How far away is the moon from earth?
The average distance from Earth to the moon is 384000 km. It takes about four days to reach the moon. The Apollo 11 spacecraft which took Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, the first and second people to go to the moon was launched on 16 July, 1969 and reached the moon on 20 July, 1969. Here we have another answer. The distance from the Earth to the moon is about 384 476 kilometres. Light travels from the Sun through the vaccuum of space at approximately 300 000 kilometres per second. Once it reflects off the moon from the Sun, it takes 1.