In this age of space exploration, man has now traveled to the Moon. By approximately how many orders of magnitude (powers of ten) was the distance of this journey greater than that of Columbus when he traveled from the Old World to the Americas?
A) 21 orders of magnitude, or 1021
B) 6 orders of magnitude, or 106
C) 10 orders of magnitude, or 1010
D) Less than one order of magnitude
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