Origins Explained is the place to be to find all the answers to your questions, from mysterious events and unsolved mysteries to everything there is to know about the world and its amazing animals! 1. Pompeii, Italy There are many scary stories in history, but the story of Pompeii is one that we just can’t get over. This is the city that was built in the fertile valley near a volcano, Mt. Vesuvius. When it erupted, it caught people by surprise and buried the city in soot and ash and left it covered and perfectly preserved for hundreds of years. Now much of it has been uncovered and it is a sad historical marvel and many people were frozen in time forever. 2. Great Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Sticking with Africa, let's head to Zimbabwe, which holds one of the biggest mysteries of the continent. It's called ... Great Zimbabwe. Yeah, does not really sound mysterious, does it? But don't let that fool you, there's more to this than you might think. 3. Thonis, Egypt If you're bi...
However, I think it’s still really important to learn about. After all, some of this technology is still being used for space programs. In preparation for this video, I read a few books. One of them was called Riding Rockets, and it was written by three-time astronaut Mike Mullane . He does a good job of capturing what it was like to ride on the space shuttle. I reached out to Mike, and he was really helpful. He made a lot of good suggestion. This is the Orbiter Vehicle, the part that looks like an airplane and carries the astronauts and payloads into space. I have a video all about the inside of the Orbiter Vehicle. I’ll put a link in the video description down below. It takes so much fuel to get into space that we need a really big gas tank. That’s what the orange external tank is for. It provides the fuel for the three Space Shuttle Main Engines. Even this isn’t enough to launch us into space. We need two extra rockets on each side. These are called the Solid Rocket Boost...