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Old September 14th 17, 07:53 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Mike Collins[_4_]
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Default Theory explained in 3 parts

On Thursday, 14 September 2017 18:21:29 UTC+1, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
On Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 6:14:24 PM UTC+1, Quadibloc wrote:

You,by your nature, are excluded from all discourse so form your own thread .


Are we to take it that from now on you will stick to your own threads?
If not:
Twenty-six hours into the mission, and almost 175,000 km from home, the
Service Propulsion System (SPS) engine of the command and service module
Columbia roared silently into the void for three seconds in what flight
controllers lauded as an “absolutely nominal” firing. In his autobiography,
Collins related that, for those few seconds, he was in active control.
Several months earlier, his five-year-old son had asked who was ‘driving’
Apollo 8 to the Moon: was it Mr Borman, the ship’s commander? No, Collins
replied, it was Sir Isaac Newton – or, at least, the influences of Sun,
Earth and Moon, which affected the spacecraft’s path just as the great
English scientist’s law of universal gravitation had helped predict three
centuries before.