(March 4, 2017 at 11:16 am)AFTT47 Wrote:(March 3, 2017 at 11:58 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: I think what he has in mind is not something that would decelerate and enter lunar orbit. It's probably just putting a capsule into an highly eccentricity earth orbit that loops around but quite far from the moon.
From nasaspaceflight.com:
Quote:The two unnamed passengers have already made a “significant deposit” to fly on the mission that will be a free trajectory flight profile that will take the Dragon 2 close to the surface of the Moon before reaching out up to 400,000 miles into deep space before returning to Earth.
So no lunar orbit. This will be the deepest humans have ever flown into space by far.
How much does the capsule mass at departure from LEO?
