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The Earth's gravity is trying to pull the Moon towards the Earth. However, the Moon has inertia. It is trying to move in a straight line. If the Moon had no "sideways" velocity it would fall onto the Earth.

In fact the Earth's gravity is needed just to bend the direction of the Moon's

path and make the Moon orbit the Earth instead of flying off into space.

This becomes clear if you do the mathematics, but that's the basic idea.

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