/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11952982
"Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse"

t. Johannes Kepler

>tfw you just rescued three kerbals off of the surface of the Mun

The closest thing to a space rescue in my imagination was Apollo 13.

Hypothetically, how would you conduct a rescue of people stranded on the surface of Mars?

> "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by Eugene Wigner
> it is possible to calculate/approximate a Hohmann transfer and its change in velocity for travel to Mars and Earth. Even if you fumble numbers and make mistakes, you still get an eerily close approximate

Why is spaceflight mathematics so macabrely beautiful? From Kepler's 16th century laws, you get the opportunity to know roughly how much you need to do to get to Mars.