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Rich Purnell is an Astrodynamicist who works for NASA. He was the one to figure out that instead of sending supplies to Mars for Mark so he could stay alive until the scheduled landing of Ares IV they could use Earth's gravity to sling shot the Hermes and the Ares 3 crew back to Mars in order to pick up Mark Watney.
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The Rich Purnell Maneuver was a trajectory course for the...
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May 14, 2021 · In the 2011 novel The Martian and its 2015 film adaptation, orbital dynamics expert Rich Purnell devises a maneuver to get NASA’s Hermes spacecraft back to Mars and rescue marooned astronaut Mark Watney.
Jun 16, 2020 · In the novel The Martian, in the midst of sequences where NASA is deciding to send supplies to Mark, and Rich Purnell is calculating the orbit or trajectory for the mission, there is a section that reads as follows:
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However, astrodynamicist Rich Purnell devises a "slingshot" trajectory around Earth for a gravity assist [8] that could get Hermes back to Mars on a much-extended mission to save Watney, using the Chinese rocket booster to send a simpler resupply probe to Hermes as it passes Earth.
- Andy Weir
- 2011
Nov 26, 2022 · This development not only bolsters Mark's hope but prompts NASA to take practical steps to help him out, such as the involvement of astrodynamicist Rich Purnell (Donald Glover), who devises an...
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The MartianBehind the Scenes Movie Interview - Donald Glover is 'Rich Purnell'Courtesy of: 20th Century FoxPlot:During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Ma...
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