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I meant how far is the moon orbit from the surface of the moon, where the other people were.
by Tichy 15y ago
I meant how far is the moon orbit from the surface of the moon, where the other people were.
- thalur 15y agoAt the furthest point in its orbit, the command module was probably about the diameter of the moon (plus a bit) away from the guys on the surface, so ~2000 miles.
- mcclung 15y agoThe Apollo command module orbit was approximately ~110 kilometers (~60 nautical miles) from the surface. The initial TLI leaves it with a highly elliptical orbit but this is corrected before the LM descent.