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Re:Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics by blkhawk on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @09:42AM (#10345924)
its amazing for how many of the diagrams i think - "heh i did that and sorta know how to wing that by hand in KSP".
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Re:Basics of Space Flight: Orbital Mechanics by Vespasian on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @10:26AM (#10346178)
I got the same feeling. You can learn a lot through trial and error.

Probably the need to know everything comes in once you have to pay for that extra dV or if you plan to put your colleagues on thousands of tons of explosive rocket fuel ;)

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