🚨 BREAKING: Cristiano Ronaldo to retire from international football with Portugal after the World Cup, his sister Katia says.
“Enjoy it while it lasts. It's ending soon. The info I have, from a reliable source… this is his LAST DANCE”, told SportTV.
🌕 The figure eight trajectory isn't arbitrary. It's called a free return trajectory designed so that if every engine fails completely, gravity alone brings the crew home.
The two Earth orbits first allow mission control to verify all systems before committing to the lunar phase. Once Orion slingshots around the far side of the Moon, the crew will be completely out of radio contact with Earth for approximately 30 minutes the first communication blackout experienced by humans since Apollo.
At maximum distance they will be roughly 10,000km past the Moon's far side farther from Earth than any human since Gene Cernan stepped off the lunar surface in December 1972.
The physics hasn't changed. The courage required hasn't either.!