Runways on the Moon?

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# 15650 bycfrjlr@... on Sept. 8, 2001, 12:32 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

During 50 seconds
decelerating to zero from 1,500 metres/sec the spacecraft will traverse a horizontal
distance of 37.5 kilometers.

This is the the length of "runway" required to decelerate an object from lunar orbit to soft land on the
lunar surface.

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