How far away is the moon? Will we be sending people there soon?

On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 you wrote:

> I wanted to know how far away the moon is. Also, I heard about a program that
> will send about 40 people to the moon around 2010. Is this true?
>
> Thanks
> Nicole

Hello Nicole,

The moon is, on average, 384,400 kilometers (that is about 230,000 miles)
away from the Earth. There have ben many proposals to send people back to
the moon in the near future. At the present, NASA does not have plans to
send any people to the moon. To the best of my knowledge, no other group
has serious plans to send people back to the moon in the near future.
Thanks for writing!

Sincerely,
Kurtis Williams

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