Alex McColgan

Not long after launch, the crew realised that a valve in their water dispenser had closed itself due to the immense g-forces.

A faulty valve meant the crew couldn't count on getting water out of the main tanks in the usual way,

so they manually extracted 7 litres of it into backup bags using syringes and straws, just to make sure they would have enough to drink for the rest of the mission.

Even more concerning was a leak discovered in the helium manifolds, a part of the rocket used to pressurise the propulsion system.

The leak rate was noted to be an order of magnitude higher than anything seen during ground testing, but thankfully the mission controllers determined it was still within acceptable safety limits.

For all these problems, floating in space must have been a dream come true for the astronauts.

I'm certainly jealous of them.

I'd love to experience the feeling of weightlessness.

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The next stage of the mission began on the 2nd of April, when the Orion spacecraft's service module engine ignited for the trans-lunar injection burn, a six-minute firing that accelerated Orion to nearly 40,000 km per hour, enough to escape Earth's gravity.