Eli5.. how did they blast off from the moon to get back to earth?
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The moon’s gravity is very weak in comparison to Earth’s, theree is virtually no atmosphere to slow a vehicle down, and the ascent module was very small/light, since it didn’t have to contain the descent engine/fuel/supplies and only needed a very short duration of life support supplies for the two crew. (Only about 35,000 lbs total, while the whole Saturn v launch vehicle weighed over 6,000,000 lbs)
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