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[[User:Looneybunny|Looneybunny]] ([[User talk:Looneybunny|talk]]) 21:05, 3 August 2014 (UTC)Looneybunny

== Productions Flights: Perilune ==

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"This meant that the complete spacecraft, including the CSM, orbited the Moon with a 9.1-nautical-mile (16.9 km) perilune, enabling the LM to begin its powered descent from that altitude with a full load of descent stage fuel, leaving more reserve fuel for the final approach. The CSM would then raise its perilune back to the normal 9.1 nautical miles (16.9 km).[10]".

It appears that both the powered descent altitude perilune and the CSM's "normal" orbital perilune should not both be 9.1 nautical miles. At least one of these must be wrong. Also, there should be some standard of hyphenating or not hyphenating "9.1 nautical miles".

[[User:Bugsi|Bugsi]] ([[User talk:Bugsi|talk]]) 13:34, 29 December 2014 (UTC) <small><span class="autosigned">—&nbsp;Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[User:Bugsi|Bugsi]] ([[User talk:Bugsi|talk]] • [[Special:Contributions/Bugsi|contribs]]) 13:30, 29 December 2014 (UTC)</span></small><!-- Template:Unsigned --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->

:Thanks for catching my mistake; the normal perilune was around 60 nautical miles. As for hyphenation, the standard is built into the [[Template:Convert]]: "9.1-nautical-mile" is used as an adjective, so the hyphen is used to separate the number and the unit. (Someone apparently thought the appropriate style was also to insert the hyphen between words of a compound unit, "nautical-mile".) [[User:JustinTime55|JustinTime55]] ([[User talk:JustinTime55|talk]]) 15:12, 5 January 2015 (UTC)