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From: CLJones@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Russian probes "failed to reach Earth orbit"
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Date: Fri, 25-May-84 14:50:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 25 14:50:00 1984
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From:   Chris Jones <CLJones@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA>

These all refer to failures to achieve earth orbit after launch from
earth.  If you think about it, it's pretty pointless carry the fuel
necessary to decelarate the probe from ~ 25000 mph to 18000 mph from the
earth to the moon, then back to earth orbit (especially since you'd need
still more fuel to kick it out of earth orbit for recovery).