Week 3 - Spaceship problem

A spaceship follows the trajectory in 3D defined by [br][math]\left\langle\cos\left(t\right),\sin\left(t\right),e^{-t}\right\rangle[/math][br]If we launch a package from the spaceship at time "a", [br]how far from the origin will the package land on the ground (z=0)?

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