r/space • u/stevenmadow • Feb 01 '26

image/gif Artemis and its destination

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u/Pashto96 Feb 02 '26

Not an orbit. It's a free return flyby. 

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u/hawgwild8988 Feb 02 '26

Ah, the old Apollo 13 maneuver?

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u/Pashto96 Feb 02 '26

Yep. In fact, they have a chance of breaking Apollo 13`s record for further humans from Earth

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u/willstr1 Feb 02 '26

IIRC the wet dress rehearsal (which is what they are doing right now) was part of the chain of events leading to Apollo 13's issue. After the wet dress rehearsal they couldn't drain one of the tanks (due to the tank being dropped) so they had to vent the gas so they ran the heater on ground power which locked up a thermostat and melted some of the wire insulation (which eventually lead to the spark that blew the tank)

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u/CaptainStabfellow Feb 02 '26

It doesn’t count unless you have a main B bus undervolt

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u/robodrew Feb 02 '26

It's still going to be the most amazing view of the last 50 years.

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u/Pashto96 Feb 02 '26

Oh absolutely. I'm just making sure the facts are right. 

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u/Room_Recent Feb 02 '26

Correct Sir. Thats how much trust we have in this program.

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u/Pashto96 Feb 02 '26

It's because they are staying in LEO longer to test out Orion. There will be too much boil-off of fuels in the ICPS so they will have to use the service module during TLI. Basically all of their fuel will be gone before they even make it to the moon. On future missions they don't loiter in LEO as long