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How did NASA figure out when and where the Apollo capsule would touch down on the ocean?
I am not sure that the existing answers really address the question asked, namely
How did NASA figure out when and where the Apollo capsule would touch down on the ocean?
The short answer is that ...
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How did NASA figure out when and where the Apollo capsule would touch down on the ocean?
As answered here, all of the Apollo missions had accurate splashdowns. This level of accuracy actually started with Project Gemini several years earlier. The Gemini capsule was the first spacecraft ...
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How did NASA figure out when and where the Apollo capsule would touch down on the ocean?
At high altitude, the effects of the air on the falling capsule are minimal. The main parachutes don't deploy until around 2 miles altitude, and the capsule is still coming down at about 22 miles per ...
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What is this surface feature near Shackleton crater classified as?
The area is named the “Shackleton connecting ridge” and the “Connecting Ridge Extension” according to https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5013 video https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005000/a005013/...
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What is this surface feature near Shackleton crater classified as?
This is the Artemis landing site map from NASA that I'm familiar with, cut down a bit to show just the area of interest:
Now, that image shows Shackleton left of deGerlache, so obviously it's from ...
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Could we convert lunar regolith into a trinitite landing pad with an atomic weapon?
This answer is going to be more opinionated than I'd usually like an answer to be. I don't know how avoidable that is--I'd expect an actual trade study on this to include a lot of seemingly-codified ...
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Why is the proposed lunar radio-telescope parabolic, rather than spherical like Arecibo?
According to Lunar Crater Radio Telescope (LCRT) on the Far-Side of the Moon NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase 1 Report,
We propose to deploy a 1km-diameter wire-mesh ... to form a
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