NASA landed on the moon, by shooting for the moon

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• usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You actually have to shoot for where the moon will be

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  • superkret@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually you shoot horizontally along Earth’s equator, to increase your orbital speed until your apoapsis intersects the lunar sphere of gravitational influence.

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    • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well yeah, but I was trying to stick to the wording of the shower thought. We’ve all played Kerbal Space Program

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean you only have to shoot to where it will be half way, moon will take care of the rest

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And if they’d done the math wrong, they’d have landed among the stars.

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  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Actually, they DID do the math wrong once…landed in the Ocean on earth. They just had to say “Ok…lets go back home.”

    Tom Hanks was in a movie about it that got a LOT of facts wrong.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Land in ocean, suddenly Tom Hanks is involved.

      See? They still landed amongst the stars.

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  • joyjoy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not if you make a free return trajectory.

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not how orbital mechanics work

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re not how orbital mechanics work.

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    • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hush!

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Works in general too: do the maths wrong, then the solution is wrong, too.

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