Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Because I spent the weekend with a bunch of people building real rockets who asked me when I was going to play more Kerbal Space Program.
I wanted to explain the Artemis II mission, and the reason for the series of maneuvers it will perform during its flight around the moon, there's some clever tricks being done to maximize the performance of the booster, and then allow the Orion spacecraft to run through a day of testing before it ends up departing Earth for a flight around the moon.

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