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“When the lander separated from the propulsion module, it was in a very tight orbit around the Moon,” says Mila Mitra, a former Nasa scientist and co-founder of Stem and Space, a Delhi-based space education company. So, the module’s complex multi-step reverse journey began on 9 October and the first step involved increasing the orbit from 150km to 5,112km.