Kevin Nolan

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Ray D'Arcy Daily · Ep23; Fix It Friday, Physics Made Fun and The Bank Holiday Party · 10 Apr 2026 podcast

Absolutely.

Indeed.

There's three gigantic, there are 116 feet.

See, America's still empirical.

They're not metric.

So everything's in feet and miles.

So there's three parachutes, 116 feet wide each.

So in fact, actually, yeah, as I say, the first parachutes are just road parachutes just to slow it down.

And in fact, actually to really pull the main parachutes out.

So the large parachutes is what will drop them in comfort.

So basically, yeah, so we're assuming three 116 feet wide parachutes will drop them gently down.

In fact, I think they say it's

gentle seven miles an hour onto the Pacific Ocean surface.

Not far from San Diego.

In fact, what's interesting in this one is they are landing quite close to the coast, about 50 miles, 70, 80 kilometres from the coast, which is quite nice, actually.

I mean, so basically, I mean, look, you know, in fact, when they talk about the translunar injections, whenever you're sending space probes anywhere, what you're actually doing is putting them into another orbit.

Even if we're sending a probe to Mars, we send it out on an orbit around the Sun that happens to meet Mars somewhere.

So we're always designing orbits.

The translunar injection would be an orbit around the Earth that happens to meet the Moon.

So when the Apollo astronauts went there, we just put them into a big orbit around the Earth and they met the Moon, but they went so close

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