Mission planners at NASA and ESA’s European Space Operations Centre have been working out the pros and cons of different orbits for the lunar #Gateway, and have now decided on the path – a ‘near-rectilinear halo orbit’. Instead of orbiting around the #Moon in a low orbit like #Apollo, the Gateway will follow a highly ‘eccentric’ path. See http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/Angelic_halo_orbit_chosen_for_humankind_s_first_lunar_outpost #Apollo50 #Apollo50th #Moonlanding #ForwardToTheMoon