Charlie Duke

And, uh,

Uh, if you, if you could get, you can get to the moon in 14 hours, but you're going so fast.

You didn't in Apollo, you didn't have enough fuel to slow down and get in orbit.

So, uh, uh, that's why they shot you out, uh, ahead for a 72 hour trip.

Not once you get out of orbit is not.

In Earth orbit, of course, you look down and you're just whizzing across the surface.

And, you know, you go across the United States in 20 minutes.

And so you get a very big sensation of motion in orbit.

But on the way to the moon, you just see the Earth receding and the moon growing.

And so it's very slow motion.

And, um, you, uh, you, you don't sense your velocity.

If I'm sure I'm trying to say, right.

Well, uh, uh, that's just the way the orbit is designed.

And I think we're going out there to see the backside of the moon.

The whole of the backside, uh, we've never seen, but haven't we flown around that?

I mean, when, when Apollo went down, the person up in the capsule was go ahead, but we flew, we flew around it, but we were only 170 miles above the moon.

And, uh, so you just have a thin strip of the back backside that you see along the equator that are going to be 7,000 miles out.

And they don't have a view of the whole backside.

I don't know what the sun angle is going to be, and that might be some of it in darkness, but it's going to be a spectacular view from back there.

You see the moon, and then beyond that, you'll see the Earth, and so it's going to be a spectacular view from back there.