• superkret@feddit.org
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    15 hours ago

    Actually you shoot horizontally along Earth’s equator, to increase your orbital speed until your apoapsis intersects the lunar sphere of gravitational influence, at just the right moment for the moon to catch you.

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      Well yeah, but I was trying to stick to the wording of the shower thought. We’ve all played Kerbal Space Program