Re: How far from abort?
Jim in Houston wrote:
13's service module engine was rendered inoperable by the explosion,
and they were too close to the moon to just turn around. Remember
they were traveling at about 25,000 miles per hour toward the moon.
Well, only immediately after TLI. They steadily lost speed as they
approached the moon's zone of influence until it had dropped to about
2200 mph. From then on, their speed increased as they "fell" towards the
moon until it reached ~6000 mph
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Dave Michelson
davem@xxxxxxxxxx
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