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The original was posted on /r/askscience by /u/Ambitious-Maybe-3386 on 2023-08-03 14:38:16+00:00.

I understand the moon has 1/6th the gravity of earth but it should take a lot of fuel. Maybe the atmosphere is also much thinner? On earth, those shuttles need two booster rockets of fuel to escape earth. Those shuttles are smaller and didn’t seem like it carried much fuel. True there’s less weight also