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The Effect of Side Thrusters on the Ejecta of Vehicles Landing on the Moon
The ejecta, the ejecta even goes to orbital altitudes. So if you have a vehicle in low lunar orbit that happens to come by at the wrong time, right in view of this ejecta shooting out, then it could sample ask the vehicle that's in orbit. The only thing I can't figure out with these side thrusters is get the engines higher up. But if we're on the moon and we've like, ultimately you want your rocket engine to point down because then you get to use all the power of the thruster.
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