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Re:Every Space Mission Ever Flown On One Map by yetanotherphd on Monday December 23, 2013 @09:48PM (#6957965)
I would rather see to-scale diagrams of a single space mission. Does anyone know of any?

This is part of a larger desire of mine that data given to the public is more "real" and less "pedagogical". Not a criticism of the current article, clearly they are focusing one something different.

Re:Every Space Mission Ever Flown On One Map by 747facts on Monday December 23, 2013 @10:10PM (#6958025)
http://www.braeunig.us/apollo/apollo11-TLI.htm

Not exactly complete, but an interesting look at how they avoided the Van Allen belts.

Re:Every Space Mission Ever Flown On One Map by yetanotherphd on Monday December 23, 2013 @10:27PM (#6958073)
awesome, thanks a lot. It looks so much more amazing when you see how big the distance from Earth to Moon is.