Letter: In Brief
Sir: We don't "break free from the gravity of the earth" when we travel to the moon ("Thirty years on: was it really such a giant leap - or just moonshine?", 17 July). It's the force due to the pull of the Earth's gravity that maintains the moon in orbit.
PATRICK SMITH
Beccles,
Suffolk
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