Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: apollo 13
Message-ID: <1990Dec12.182030.20146@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <90346.083237TACON019@ysub.ysu.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 90 18:20:30 GMT

In article <90346.083237TACON019@ysub.ysu.edu> TACON019@ysub.ysu.edu (Fred Ullom) writes:
>... They used the LEM for habitation on the return
>trip to earth when the command module was crippled and then jettisoned
>it in earth orbit before re-entry.
>
>I was just curious, is the LEM still orbiting the earth or did the orbit
>decay?

Neither.  They didn't jettison it into orbit, they jettisoned it into an
impact trajectory.  Its remains ended up in the Pacific.
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