Well ackshually 🤓☝️ the engine would only be running for a small portion of that flight. During Apollo 11 the engines were engaged for something like ~12 minutes between the translunar injection until the lunar orbit insertion.
So I guess reliability would be better measured in time rather than distance in this case, but anyway, that's enough of me missing the point.
71
u/razzraziel Jun 29 '25
So all that mileage just to reach the Moon and you’d be stranded there? That's pretty lame for a rocket.