It took 60 hours to get to the Moon so we waited until the craft was in orbit and then we had a mad rush to get from Launch Control to Mission Control (in Houston, Texas).

BBC: Neil Armstrong in 1969

The company turned down a site in the suburbs partly because it takes only 15 minutes during rush hour to get here from managers' lakefront homes in the surrounding hills.

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Satellite, surprisingly, came out as having the best throughput although before you rush out to get satellite service remember that the roundtrip latency (the time it takes a data packet to go from your PC to its destination and for an acknowledgement to come back) over a satellite connection is often in the range of 900 milliseconds to 1, 400 milliseconds.

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