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Space Geek Out 2022

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The Distant Retrograde Orbit for Artemis 1

The orbits they get, again, I mentioned earlier, but we've learned so much more about our organics and have such good software now for analyzing them. This particular orbit that they use, the Distant Retrograde Orbit for Artemis, you wouldn't use it with people on board because it's not a fast orbit. So if there's a problem, they're already headed back to Earth. But this was about being very, very fuel efficient so that they could test more things. They actually would pass out of the influence of the moon's gravity for the most part until the sun was actually the primary influence. And then it would sort of fall back towards the moon again to get affected

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