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On New Year’s Day, a spacecraft will zoom by the most distant object humanity has ever visited
The Verge ^
| Dec 27, 2018, 10:37am EST
| Loren Grush
Posted on 12/27/2018 8:41:12 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: ThornJ56
Not following you. The trajectory to the moon is a (very eccentric) orbit around the earth, which is why Apollo 13 could just whip around the moon and come straight back home. Apollo flights were actually in "earth orbit" for the entire trip, including the time they were also orbiting the moon, and the time they spent *on* the lunar surface, the moon itself being in earth orbit.
Although man's machines have left earth orbit, man himself regrettably has not. So far.
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12/27/2018 2:07:21 PM PST
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Campion
((marine dad))
To: Campion
Ah I must simply be uninformed. Thanks for the lesson, always neat to learn something new.
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12/27/2018 2:12:23 PM PST
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ThornJ56
To: MichaelCorleone
Put them in a class that includes the Lewis and Clark expedition. Only the astronauts knew what was out there. Lewis and Clark didn’t know what they would find.
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12/27/2018 2:41:00 PM PST
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sparklite2
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