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Old 03-September-2006, 10:50 PM
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Yes, spaceflights between planetary bodies are far more complex than just "point and shoot".

It's even more complex than just "escape Earth orbit and fly to the moon, then insert into lunar orbit."

Science fiction makes it seem easy.

"There's nothing routine about flying to the moon,"
Tom Hanks (as Jim Lovell)
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