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To get farther away from earth you have to work against gravity.


Technically it's slightly lower surprisingly early in the trip -- get to an altitiude of 500km and g is down to about 8.5m/s, at 2000km it's 5.7, and by the time you get just 1/10th of the way it's pretty much gone. At some point the moon's gravity will start to work with you and pull you in.




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