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Showerthoughts

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[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

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