2 Jan
2012
2 Jan
'12
7:52 a.m.
On 1/2/12, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
Thanks for the info, Jared. But I'm still having trouble understanding the reason why this approach is preferable, since they went farther and used more fuel than they otherwise would have. -- Joe
Because they didn't have to carry a lot of fuel on-board the probes for braking into lunar orbit, as Jared pointed-out.