Mastodawn

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.

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

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

Oh, hang on. Orion is OUTSIDE the moon's orbit now, and the moon is actually helping to slow it down and pull it back?

The mechanics of this are mind boggling.

@ross I believe, according to my favourite science officer, that they used "stone knives and bear skins".