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To: null and void
"Don’t his fellow astronauts on the surface of the moon count as anyone else?"

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Not if you comprehend English.

"...his crew mates roamed the lunar surface, and he was 2,235 miles away from anyone ELSE"

(i.e., Anyone other than his crew mates...)

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Assume Worden's planned CSM periapsis increase from the 62 mile insertion/recovery altitude was to a stable orbit of 76 miles.

Then -- when he was on the other side of the moon from his crew mates , he could have been 2,235 miles from them. (Lunar diameter 2159 miles + orbital altitude 76 miles.)

But, who ELSE might also have been out there, some 238,855 +/- miles from Earth.?
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Those were wasted calculations. The problem was stupid writing by NASA "PR pukes"... (And schools that don't teach English comprehension...)

20 posted on 03/18/2020 2:25:32 PM PDT by TXnMA (Anagram: "PANDEMIC --> DEM PANIC")
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To: ratzoe; vmpolesov; husky ed
See #20 .

Back to grammar school, FRiends...

ratzoe, you're the reason we included emphasis formatting commands in HTML.

21 posted on 03/18/2020 2:50:16 PM PDT by TXnMA (Anagram: "PANDEMIC --> DEM PANIC")
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