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Free Return Trajectory
The idea that it would be possible for a projectile to go around the Moon and then return to Earth. (Read the full article)
| "you didn't help me at all" ( 5/11/2005 1:47:58 PM ) |
| "I read this book and Verne wasn't too clear on how the characters had originally intended to return to Earth. I think maybe they hadn't thought that far ahead.
" (Moondragon 5/15/2009 2:19:10 AM ) |
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