Given that earth travels through space at a rate of 67,000 miles per hour, why didn’t it move away from the Apollo 11 astronauts when they left earth orbit?

Question

Given that earth travels through space at a rate of 67,000 miles per hour, why didn’t it move away from the Apollo 11 astronauts when they left earth orbit?

In: Physics

Answer 1

It did move away from them. Otherwise they would have never been able to make it to the Moon. Now, if you’re asking why didn’t the Earth move away from them at a speed of 67k miles per hour, that’s because they are moving through space at a rate of (slightly) 67k miles per hour so keep up with the Earth.