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Old 14-March-2008, 05:57 PM
Dave J Dave J is offline
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An interesting example was the venting in the Apollo 13 situation. I forget the exact source, maybe a thremal system outgassing, but the thrust was seemingly negligible. It was enough to change the earthbound trajectory to the point of requiring an additional midcourse correction, or two.
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