The flight of NASA's Artemis (purple) uses two very close encounters with the moon's gravity (green) to changes its trajectory to get back to the earth (blue.) Amazing.

More details: https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-1

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@BenHouston3D I wonder how often this can be done before slowing the moon down ;)