Edward Belbruno was once called in the New Scientist one of the "Top 10 most influential space thinkers". Indeed, Edward Belbruno is the man who revolutionized and is still revolutionizing our understanding of space travel. The work of Edward Belbruno shows us that methods from chaos theory of dynamical systems can be fruitfully applied to mission design. Charles Conley first proposed to take advantage of the dynamics of the restricted three-body problem to find low energy transit orbits from the Earth to the Moon, namely orbits which require much less fuel than the traditional orbits which are based on Keplerian motion. In 1986 Edward Belbruno found the first realistic low-energy transit orbit from an orbit around the Earth to an orbit around the Moon.
Apart from its practical relevance, the new discoveries of Edward Belbruno in capture dynamics lead as well to new insights in theoretical astrophysics. He discussed in the paper “Where Did The Moon Come From“ the origin of the Moon from the point of view of capture dynamics; a different application of Edward Belbruno’s Capture dynamics concerns the Lithopanspermia Hypothesis about the origin of life. Surprisingly, Edward Belbruno found in recent years quite striking relations between his previous works and different fields of physics: Black Holes, the Big Bang, quantum mechanics.
This project was initiated in the context of the Stardust Reloaded H2020 research network.

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