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[float=right][img3="Apollo master trajectory plan"]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a0/d7/c0/a0d7c07a7893f9ed93bb4970bab41629.jpg[/img3][/float][quote="orin stepanek" post_id=298837 time=1579265638 user_id=100812]
[quote="Matthias S" post_id=298836 time=1579244787]
I’m very surprised to learn that the command module is so far below the lunar module. Now I wonder what were the trajectories of the LM and the CM after separation...[/quote]
At a glance it looks like CM America is lower in orbit than Apollo 17! :shock: [/quote]
Perhaps it was really one orbit [b][u][color=#0000FF]after[/color][/u][/b] ascending from the Moon.

(The LM is designed to carry extra fuel so no use wasting it when it can help the CM to lift all those lunar rocks away from the Moon.)

At a glance it looks like CM America is lower in orbit than Apollo 17! :shock: :rocketship:

I’m very surprised to learn that the command module is so far below the lunar module. Now I wonder what were the trajectories of the LM and the CM after separation...

Okay, thanks for sharing your travel photos with the class, Eugene. Children, who wants to go next?

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200117.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_200117.jpg[/img] [size=150]Apollo 17: A Stereo View from Lunar Orbit[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] Get out your [url=http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/Help/VendorList.html#Glasses]red/blue glasses[/url] and check out this awesome stereo view of another world. [url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a17/a17.html]The scene was recorded[/url] by Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene Cernan on December 11, 1972, one orbit before descending to land on the Moon. The stereo anaglyph was assembled from two photographs ([url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a17/images17.html]AS17-147-22465, AS17-147-22466[/url]) captured from his vantage point on board the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap191219.html]Lunar Module[/url] Challenger as he and Dr. Harrison Schmitt flew over Apollo 17's [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110908.html]landing site[/url] in the [url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17OTM.html]Taurus-Littrow Valley[/url]. The broad, sunlit face of the mountain dubbed South Massif rises near the center [url=http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/a17/a17.22465lbl.jpg]of the frame[/url], above the dark floor of Taurus-Littrow to its left. Beyond the mountains, toward the lunar limb, lies the Moon's [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090206.html]Mare Serenitatis[/url]. Piloted by Ron Evans, the Command Module America is visible in orbit in the foreground against the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071214.html]South Massif's peak[/url].


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