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Old 28-May-2002, 06:07 PM
Silas Silas is offline
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On 2002-05-28 13:43, JayUtah wrote:
I will be glad to discuss the combustion characteristics of the TR-201 engine to any degree of detail you wish.
Well, here's something I've wondered: did the ascent module engine have enough power to boost the AM into lunar escape orbit, or did the CM/SM have to do any maneuvering to meet it and "pull it out" of the moon's gravity well?

All of the NASA diagrams show the former procedure, which would be (quite a bit!) safer. But is that the way it was done?

(This has nothing to do with the Hoax, only with a detail of the mission that I didn't know. You've already set me straight on a couple of other ideas I'd had -- since 1969! -- that were wrong, for which thank'ee!)

Silas