There are many different ways you could measure distance in space. Some ways are Kilometers, Astronomical Units, and Light Years. There are many other ways but in my science class these are the different measurements we are focusing on. You can use Kilometers (Km) for measuring the diameter and radius of different planets. You can use Astronomical Units (AU) for the distances between different planets. One AU is 150 million Km. An AU is the distance between the Sun and the Earth. A Light Year is 9,458,000,000,000 Km or 6,000,000,000,000 miles. You would use a Light Year to find maybe the distance from Earth to the farthest known object in the Universe. Kilometers are the smallest measurement out of the three, then Astronomical Units, and the largest of them all is Light Years.
Earth's Moon is 400,000 Km from the Earth itself. If you were to travel by a Space Shuttle it would take around 15 hours. If you were to take a car to the Moon it would take 4,000 hours and if you were to take a plane to the Moon it would take 400 hours. In that case it would be fastest to travel by Space Shuttle. Humans (Astronauts) have landed on the Moon. The Astronauts have taken the Space Shuttle. They went to find out different facts about the Moon that people didn't know about before.
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