WATCH: Moment Artemis II engines cut off as crew enters near weightlessness

ANU Astrophysicist and Cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker analyses the Main Engine Cut Off (MECO) stage of NASA’s Artemis II mission. “We’re just seeing now the separation of the main booster, what they call MECO, from the rest of the craft,” Dr Tucker told Sky News Australia. “They just went through about six times the force of gravity just before the separation of the first booster.