The first operation performed is to verify the Moon's present trajectory; the data confirms their course remains unchanged.
"Computer," said Zaphod, "tell us again what our present trajectory is."
"The present fiscal trajectory entails an uncomfortable scale of borrowing and little insurance against possible adverse outcomes in an uncertain world," he said.
"That cluster's not even close to our present trajectory."
No planetary or asteroidal targets are anywhere close to our present trajectory.
If the trip continued on its present downward trajectory, the dimension of this particular failure would dwarf all the others in Shreave's lackluster past.
If she keeps on her present trajectory, she'll be lucky to live another year.
Yamagata answered, "They have been ordered by Moscow to return without altering the asteroid's present trajectory.
It fit our present trajectory across dittotown, in case he was tracking.
