Artemis II

[Bri1975]

21,000mph lol

Is there a simple way of explaining how that's possible ?

 

[hilts]

21,000mph lol

Should have seen my peugeot 205 back in the day:-)

Glad they're back safe and thats that news wise after today.

 

[hilts]

It's staggering that everything is down to the second or the point something of a mile. Our public transport system could learn a lot from NASA. 252000 miles to travel and arrival time down to the minute !

Public transport haha.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Erin Burnett on CNN has got even more attractive the way she's nerding out about the landing. She even drew the landing trajectory on a white board.

I do like a bit of Erin, never seen enough of her unless on holiday abroad and no UK telly.

 

[The Norfolk Blue]

 

[Blue Maverick]

I really wish they rescuers would dress up in ape costumes for a laugh

 

[Elbow beards]

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Err no, earth's atmosphere. Fucking conspiracy nutjobs.

 

[Elbow beards]

Is there a simple way of explaining how that's possible ?

Thrusters push them in space, there is nothing to resist, no friction to slow them down so they maintain incredible speeds.

 

[Bigga]

I hope Humans NEVER get off this rock in any meaningful way.

Who wants these war mongering parasites spreading their disgusting ways beyond here?

 

[RiversideBlue]

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They deliberately use the Earth's atmosphere to create drag to slow the space ship down to a few hundred mph. Then the parachutes do the last bit. Conspiracy nut jobs!

 

[Grassland Blue]

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Re entry into the earths' atmosphere scrubs off a lot of speed.

 

[Grassland Blue]

The fact that some humans have gone 2,000 miles further into space than anyone else makes me smile.
I mean 2,000 miles further into the infinite depths of space.....
Haha.

 

[Gray]

21,000mph lol

World land speed record by comparison is 763mph.

 

[Gray]

Fascinating that they got those speeds 60 years ago.

And controlled everything with a computer with less power than current mobile phones.

 

[Elbow beards]

21,000mph lol

You could get to oz in half an hour. The same amount of time it takes to get past the pyramid on the M60 in rush hour. :)

 

[dronefromsector7G]

The fact that some humans have gone 2,000 miles further into space than anyone else makes me smile.
I mean 2,000 miles further into the infinite depths of space.....
Haha.

It’s hilarious for sure.

 

[OB1]

Well that was great fun. Sleep time :-)

Certainly compelling. Went to bed when they started hoisting the astronauts up to the helos.

 

[i kne albert davy]

Yep.

1 in 20 chance the heat shields could fail on re-entry.

I doubt it will occur and they'll be in the drink in around an hour safe and sound.

You'd be shitting yourself if you were on mission 20 then. :-)

 

[We've got Guardiola]

Is there a simple way of explaining how that's possible ?

They hit 20,000+mph because the Earth's gravity pulled them. As they returned the Earth's gravity gets stronger and they constantly accelerate towards it. There is no air or anything in space except gravity or the capsules thrusters to resist that acceleration so they keep speeding up until they hit the ground or something else is don to change it.

You yourself are being pulled towards Earth right now except obviously you can't be pulled through the ground (not true on all planets!). If there was no ground or any other resistive forces such as air resistance then you would accelerate at an increasing rate towards the centre of the Earth. Jump in the air and it pulls you down.

The Moon exerts its own gravity on us too. It's changing position and distance is what causes the tides on the sea.

 

[dickie davies]

Re entry into the earths' atmosphere scrubs off a lot of speed.

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