But for some reason NASA wasn’t interested.
Ping!...........
“AI” could have told them that.
“ there are no Exxons on the moon…”
The whole focus on the next steps to the moon will be to build the gas station there. It’s “cheaper” to fuel up at the moon and take off to Mars and beyond. You can get a lot more stuff up there from earth if you only need half the fuel to get there.
Learn to parallel park so you don’t have to go around the block again.
You can do a lotta weird s**t near the libration points.
Just ask Bob Farquhar.
“AI” could have told them that.
Yet.
I plan to just call for an Uber
“I knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque!”
wy69
I thought it was taking a walk in the moonlight with your sweetie.
This was exploited for the Apollo lunar missions. They called it the “Low Energy, Free Return Trajectory”. Old news.
Astronomers just discovered a “hidden route” to the moon after running hundreds of thousands of simulations. I’ve tried that just to get to the head at 2:17 am.
https://www.space.com/astronomy/moon/scientists-find-a-hidden-route-to-the-moon-that-saves-fuel
Using Chaos to Guide a Spacecraft to the moon☆
Elbert E.N Macau
Acta Astronautica
Volume 47, Issue 12, December 2000, Pages 871-878
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576500001259
low fuel use, nonchalant trajectory, and off the shelf components
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/clementine/
Interestingly, related note: the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is positioned at the second Lagrange point (L2) about a million miles from the Earth. Where it orbits the Sun following a looping halo orbit. Also where the gravitational pull of the Sun and Earth balance allowing the telescope to maintain position.
