PhilpaxArtemis II lifts off: four astronauts begin 10-day lunar mission
Minutes after launch they reached "ten thousand miles per hour". That's 2.78 miles per second. Nuts. No doubt the speeds go even higher later too.
I'm sure people here are already familiar with the speeds these things go, but that's the first time I've confronted a fact like that and it blew me away.
> Minutes after launch they reached "ten thousand miles per hour".
Artimus II launch stopped half-way to orbit! Apparently a Smokey was behind the ISS and pulled them over for speeding. "This was reckless! They might have injured children playing in the area!" stated the arresting officer, Olaf Pirlos.