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Did Apollo do a burn prior to re-entry?
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March 2nd 07, 11:03 PM posted to sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Did Apollo do a burn prior to re-entry?
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to slow it down? It was going , what, about 25,000 MPH?
Or did it "crash" squarely enough into the atmosphere that it didn't
need to?
It did a very long shallow lifting reentry to spread out the peak
heating and decrease the G loads:
http://www.jdkbph.com/ALMT/ALMTdocs/17reentry.pdf
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