I'm watching #Artemis speed decreasing as it continues to be pulled back steadily by earth. Seems like it's just never gonna get to the moon.

But I assume, at some point, the moon starts to pull it towards it faster?

But also the moon is not directly in front of it.

Tracker: https://www.nasa.gov/specials/trackartemis/

How they calculate the trajectories now, with computers, is baffling. How they did it in the 60's I'll never understand.

#space

NASA: Artemis II

Artemis I will be the first in a series of increasingly complex missions to build a sustained human presence at the Moon for decades to come.

NASA

@ross this book from the early 70s (which I have in my personal library) covers that aspect. I'm sure there are others. It's amazing that we can do that like you rightly said.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/fundamentals-of-astrodynamics_jerry-e-white_donald-d-mueller/268028/item/4355226/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAveebBhD_ARIsAFaAvrHCxpu6yrWFuVFHrCl6ycl-r3cGqJi81JE3z-j59a7bjHR41Q4xVrwaAoGwEALw_wcB#idiq=4355226&edition=2566317