Re: aborting a lunar lander

From: Jud McCranie (youknowwhat.mccranie_at_adelphia.net)
Date: 08/23/04 

Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 14:57:37 -0400

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:43:38 -0600, "Jay Windley"
<webmaster@clavius.org> wrote:

>Seriously, that's a more survivable abort scenario. If the descent engine
>had failed for any reason, the landing would be aborted. The descent stage
>is discarded and the ascent engine is fired to return them to orbit.

Were there situations in which they would gain some altitude with the
decent engine before dropping the descent stage? 

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