Thread: Couple more Apollo questions
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Old 27-February-2004, 10:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Maksutov
BTW, they had slowed to about 2800 MPH by the time they reached the transition zone where the Moon's gravity became stronger than the Earth's, about 202,000 miles from Earth.
Really? That seems awfully slow. Did they use the Moon's gravity to speed back up?

And the related question, how fast does one need to go to maintain a lunar orbit?
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