• bthest@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    How exactly do you think they’d return prematurely? Hit the reverse button?

    • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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      10 hours ago

      Its the entire reason they did a full orbit before firing the lunar injection burn, so that if something was wrong they could jettison the service module and perform a deorbit burn for an early splashdown in the pacific.