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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr
Great but what if something goes wrong? ... There is no viable rescue plan! (& good luck getting insurance company to cover this)
We are not technically ready for space tourism.
A professional astronaut who is aware for the risks is an entirely different situation.
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They are not doing a TLI (trans lunar injection), but will simply be doing a flyby. I expect this is to save fuel, since they will be just make the orbit a large ellipse without entering Lunar Orbit.
The red is what they will do vs. a real TLI which is the continuation of the black line around the moon.
