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Oddly enough if it did just fall, relative to the Earth's rotation, instead of slam into the atmosphere at thousands of meters per second it would be less stres
by dhughes 14y ago
Oddly enough if it did just fall, relative to the Earth's rotation, instead of slam into the atmosphere at thousands of meters per second it would be less stressful on the capsule.
- moped 14y agoThough, if the angle of re-entry is too shallow, it would skip off the atmosphere (like a rock would across water).
- drbawb 14y agoAnd if Earth is this basketball, and the Odyssey CM is this baseball, they have to hit a re-entry interface no thicker than this piece of computer paper. (At least that's what Apollo 13 [the movie] said.)