By jorgebgt on Skatehive
Things you don't know about the Artemis II Mission https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmb4PQCMuWf7KHq5GU7A7rMwhMR55WG4ZciBdDzVUAF7z3/image.png Souce Four astronauts aboard the Orion capsule mounted on the tip of this enormous rocket, the SLS, accelerated upwards, in a minute and a half they were already going faster than sound trying to get out of the Earth's atmosphere, but to go out into space and stay up there for a while, you not only need to go up, if you go up vertically, as soon as you run out of fuel, you fall vertically, that's how gravity works, to avoid falling, you need to move to one side and quickly, that's why the SLS turned until it was on its side, as he continued to accelerate, not just up, but sideways. In a few minutes it reached the horizontal speed it needed to avoid falling and thus enter orbit around the Earth. The two enormous boosters detached when they exhausted their solid fuel, but the SLS continued accelerating with its four powerful engines while burning 1,00