[RightWhale]

Not sure about parabolic, but in a central gravitation field it is elliptical or hyperbolic. You can tell the difference by whether your spaceship comes back or not if it doesn't run into something.

[snopercod]

Coming late to the thread here, but Melville said on Fox that "he may have hit the rudder pedal inadvertently".

The talking heads said the craft "was spinning out of control". Sheesh...