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Anonymous Mon Aug 21 22:22:52 2023 No.15683392 [View]
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According to my calcs, agena+mercury capsule had about 2800 dV fully fueled, which was almost enough to pull an apollo 8 (3260) if the soviets attempted some quick shit.

Now agena needed some fuel to insert itself into LEO, but that spent fuel could have been refilled by a second agena in orbit, if a mechanism of fuel transfer had been available.

Mercury moon intercept could have been a reality had agena not been plaged with reliability issues.

Except that perhaps the mercury thermal shield was not enough for direct lunar reentry?

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