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Old 01-05-2013, 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by deanm View Post
Hmmm... hard to understand how Apollo 8 is shown as a lunar sample return mission given that it only orbited the moon 10 times without any landing attempt....

Dean
It's very confusing...
Apollo 8 has a dot for "Flyby" and "Return" but none for "Landing". I suppose it should have a dot for "Orbit" and the "Return" bit shouldn't have "With Samples"...

I've seen a few of these infographics for space missions and this, by far, conveys the information in the least intuitive way I've ever seen... It's also not very pleasant to look at
Shame as it would've taken a lot of effort to produce...
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