Figure 4-23: R I V U X G
In Orbit Around the Moon This photograph taken from the spacecraft Columbia shows the lunar lander Eagle after returning from the first human landing on the Moon in July 1969. Newton’s form of Kepler’s third law describes the orbit of a spacecraft around the Moon, as well as the orbit of the Moon around Earth (visible in the distance).
In Orbit Around the Moon This photograph taken from the spacecraft Columbia shows the lunar lander Eagle after returning from the first human landing on the Moon in July 1969. Newton’s form of Kepler’s third law describes the orbit of a spacecraft around the Moon, as well as the orbit of the Moon around Earth (visible in the distance).
(Michael Collins, Apollo 11, NASA)