Space ship Artemis II, with four astronauts inside, was launched from Florida on April 1 at about 6:30 by local time.
Launching eastward over the ocean from a southerly part of the east coast adds a craft’s speed to the rotational speed of the planet. The craft was steered into a curve that will take it around the Moon, without landing there, and back home.
The place had the descriptive and melodious Spanish name Canaveral, “canebrake,” and so did the rocket testing and launch site founded there in 1949, until Lyndon Johnson in 1963 renamed it in honor of his assassinated predecessor John Kennedy. Monuments are at the mercu of executive orders.
This is the firs “manned” flight to the Moon since the Apollo program of the 1960s and 1970s. Artemis, sister of Apollo, was a vurgub huntress.
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Not sure why they have to renter the atmosphere at 2,000 MPH. I would think they could get into a geosynchronous orbit. and then descend at the speed of gravity (120 MPH)
Thanx for the info. I was wondering where Artemis came from. Never had any vurgubs. Are they tasty?
Nice to see USA back on top. Haven’t had that warm feeling since 1969, as the world watched with awe when we first landed on the moon.
The new spaceship has cameras everywhere, following in the pattern of SpaceX. A camera showed the core stage separation. The crew spent the first day in a high elliptical orbit, so that the whole Earth was visible.
Speaking of SpaceX , Elon Musk is taking his company public. Should be profitable in case you have any investment funds.
“Vurgub huntress”? Sounds like something from Lord of the Rings.
Typos can be creative.