Stamau123@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 days agoRocket lifts off with four Artemis II astronauts on a mission to the moon and backapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square262fedilinkarrow-up1813
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minus-squarebthest@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-214 days agoHow exactly do you think they’d return prematurely? Hit the reverse button?
minus-squareHemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 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.