Stamau123@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoRocket lifts off with four Artemis II astronauts on a mission to the moon and backapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square132linkfedilinkarrow-up1551arrow-down14
arrow-up1547arrow-down1external-linkRocket lifts off with four Artemis II astronauts on a mission to the moon and backapnews.comStamau123@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square132linkfedilink
minus-squarebthest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 days agoHow exactly do you think they’d return prematurely? Hit the reverse button?
minus-squareHemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 days agoIts the entire reason they did a full orbit before firing the lunar injection burn, so that if something was wrong they could jettison the service module and perform a deorbit burn for an early splashdown in the pacific.
How exactly do you think they’d return prematurely? Hit the reverse button?
Its the entire reason they did a full orbit before firing the lunar injection burn, so that if something was wrong they could jettison the service module and perform a deorbit burn for an early splashdown in the pacific.