Originally Posted by
Dorf
Any idea which of those CMPs had the greatest distance from Earth whilst flying solo? Asking for a friend.
From memory……..no
Short of finding a specific reference I guess you could work on the assumption that during the solo flight phase that CSMs all generally flew a similar orbit (roughly circular, about 60 n.m/ 100km above 50the surface), so the record holder will be the CMP who was flying his solo phase when the Moon was nearest to the apogee of it’s orbit around the Earth
Some of the planetarium software will give you a clue as to that if you enter the relevant flight dates into the software and then examine
I have some software that I think would do it but might pass on this one since I have to walk the cat tonight..
edit to add that this link might also be of use:
https://www.fourmilab.ch/earthview/pacalc.html