| The Trip around the Moon |
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| Method 3: I knew that there wouldn�t be any benefit to trying it this way, but since I�d gotten good at figuring out the amount of fuel it would take to drop a can at any given area by this point, I decided to see how much worse off you�d be if you placed a can at LC and then LH, instead of combining the routes.
The only really new idea here isn�t really new at all. PAA = DA, G, DA, 0 = 3 I�m able to make it to LA to make drops twice without refueling. To save myself some time, I won�t type out the actions in the way I did in Methods 1 and 2. PB = PI = 5 PBI = 9, so you use 1 extra unit of fuel PC = PH = 12 PCH = 23, so you use 1 extra unit of fuel PD = PG = 32 PDG = 56, so you use 8 extra units of fuel PE = PF = 76 PEF = 135, so you use 17 extra units of fuel...yikes! Using the same locations from Method 2, it takes a whopping 179 units of fuel to get around the moon. |