And if they’d done the math wrong, they’d have landed among the stars.
NASA landed on the moon, by shooting for the moon
Submitted 2 days ago by iii@mander.xyz to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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wjrii@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 days 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.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Land in ocean, suddenly Tom Hanks is involved.
See? They still landed amongst the stars.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Not if you make a free return trajectory.
Thorry84@feddit.nl 2 days ago
That’s not how orbital mechanics work
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You’re not how orbital mechanics work.
wjrii@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Hush!
iii@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Works in general too: do the maths wrong, then the solution is wrong, too.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
You actually have to shoot for where the moon will be
superkret@feddit.org 2 days ago
Actually you shoot horizontally along Earth’s equator, to increase your orbital speed until your apoapsis intersects the lunar sphere of gravitational influence.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Well yeah, but I was trying to stick to the wording of the shower thought. We’ve all played Kerbal Space Program
Wogi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I mean you only have to shoot to where it will be half way, moon will take care of the rest