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Consider a spacecraft that is to be launched from the Earth

to the Moon. Calculate the minimum velocity needed for the
spacecraft to just make it to the Moon’s surface. Ignore air drag
from the Earth’s atmosphere. Hint: The spacecraft will not have
zero velocity when it reaches the Moon

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