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There was more fuel on-board for the auxiliary propulsion systems and for the various modules, but the above was the fuel used to get the payload into space and to the moon. That's a total of 3,787,350 liters of fuel, or just over 1 million gallons of liquid fuel with a fuse! Wow! Of interest: Europe is preparing plans to join the U.S. in building a manned spaceship that will take men and women to the moon.
NASA's Apollo manned missions (1969 to 1972) took approximately 3 days to reach the Moon. Unmanned probes can take slightly longer to save fuel. Two Chinese probes launched inâ¦ 2007 and 2010 took different paths, the first taking 12 days and the second only 4 days on a direct route. 7 people found this useful.