NASA readies Artemis II for a manned launch
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Here we go!
Plasma glow, then communications black out.
4wd
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Safe Splash Down ! 
Welcome home!
Beautiful day in San Diego for a perfect spashdown!
Beautiful day in San Diego for a perfect spashdown!
Splash down confirmed!
Weird that the footage got all blurry there right at the end....
This is as bad as Baba Wawa narrating the OJ Simpson chase!
"I didn't know green meant healthy, yuk yuk yuk."
4wd
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32 Club ?
“I hate to talk over the NASA communications”
Oh, you mean like you’ve been doing THE ENTIRE FRIGGIN TIME, DAVID?!
There were some issues with the heat shield on Artemis 1 - so, they changed the entry on Artemis 2. From skip to direct entry. Heat Shield will be redesigned for Artemis 3.
I'm pretty sure the brave astronauts are saying, "Open this door and let me get a taco at the Barrio Logan!"
These's a reason for it...
Amazing!
These's a reason for it...
Amazing!
Very glad to see the mission has completed successfully. My very tiny tertiary contribution was in the last portion of the mission, looking forward to the out brief from the team.
jeff
jeff
Far too much senseless babble in the coverage on most all the channels. I miss the days of Jules Bergman.
This is an excellent video showing the complete reentry, all the way to splashdown. With all the speed, altitude, and G load telemetry in real time. You can see how incredibly fast they're traveling, (7 miles per second), when they hit the upper atmosphere at 400,000 feet, and the plasma starts streaming off the heat shield.
People are starting to comb through the mass of photos from the mission and there are some truly amazing things to be seen.
Hank Green does a little explaining of what you're looking at.
Hank Green does a little explaining of what you're looking at.
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