Engineers like to describe the process of landing a rover on Mars as the “seven minutes of terror”.
That’s how long it takes for a robot to come to a standing-stop at the surface of the Red Planet after entering the atmosphere faster than a rifle bullet; and so much has to go right in-between to avoid smashing into the ground.
For its upcoming flight, Orion will fly around the Moon without astronauts.
But it will eventually carry people as part of a US plan to return people to the lunar surface this decade.
Billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos is launched with three crew members aboard a New Shepard rocket on the world’s first unpiloted suborbital flight from Blue Origin’s Launch Site 1 near Van Horn, Texas , U.S., July 20, 2021.
When is the launch? How far is he going? Is it safe? What’s all the fuss? Here are the answers to those questions
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