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To: Williams

If you can accelerate continuously, then you have to decelerate at some point -— starting at approximately the half-way point between the start and your destination. Ideally, you can just turn yourself around and point the rocket in the opposite direction.

Unless you can decelerate using some other means, like aero-braking.


42 posted on 10/03/2012 5:29:41 PM PDT by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: justlurking
If you can accelerate continuously, then you have to decelerate at some point -— starting at approximately the half-way point between the start and your destination. Ideally, you can just turn yourself around and point the rocket in the opposite direction.

Readers of Tintin books would recognize that exact scenario from the Explorers on the Moon volume.

54 posted on 10/03/2012 7:00:02 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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