On Dec 11 2022, NASA’s Artemis 1 Orion capsule returned from it’s orbit around the Moon, and successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, with the capsule landing safely and intact. Paving the way for Artemis 2 to take a 4 person crew around the Moon, in preparation for the Artemis 3 crewed moon landing, the first human precense on the Moon since Apollo 17 in the 70’s. Here’s a 1 min edit of the NASA stream covering the reentry of the Orion capsule.
Rocketry, space agencies and exploration, moon mission and human landing on Mars! Explanation of rocketry flight and propulsion, basics of space exploration and orbital mechanics. I explain current efforts into space exploration on behalf of the world’s space agencies and programs. You can think of the video as a crash course in space travel, rocketry and orbital mechanics.
Within the next decade, through NASA’s Artemis missions, we should be seeing humanity’s return to the moon, and a human landing on Mars! The first landing of a human on another planet!
Topics covered:
– Intro (JFK’s Speech)
– Rocketry and basics of rocket launches into space
– History of the development of rocketry, and development in the cold war
– The Artemis Missions
– Rocket engine stages and Multistage rockets (Basics of Orbital mechanics) – Rockets vs cannons
– Current state of the Artemis missions
– Institutional knowledge
– China National Space Administration
– Indian Space Research Organization and other space programs
– Why to go space?
– Artemis Accords
– Losses in the quest to explore space, in remembrance
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