Q: In this task, you are given a question and a context passage. You have to answer the question based on the given passage.
Which approach involved a heavier craft?, Context: In early 1961, direct ascent was generally the mission mode in favor at NASA. Many engineers feared that a rendezvous let alone a docking neither of which had been attempted even in Earth orbit, would be extremely difficult in lunar orbit. Dissenters including John Houbolt at Langley Research Center emphasized the important weight reductions that were offered by the LOR approach. Throughout 1960 and 1961, Houbolt campaigned for the recognition of LOR as a viable and practical option. Bypassing the NASA hierarchy, he sent a series of memos and reports on the issue to Associate Administrator Robert Seamans; while acknowledging that he spoke "somewhat as a voice in the wilderness," Houbolt pleaded that LOR should not be discounted in studies of the question.
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direct ascent