Dec. 11, 2022, NASA’s Artemis I Orion spacecraft reenters the atmosphere after completing a 1.4 million-mile, 25.5 day Artemis I mission to the Moon.

Credit: NASA



by Busy_Yesterday9455

15 Comments

  1. imagine being weightless for 10 days then going through a sustained 3gs.

    id be sick and most likely pass out

  2. “We’re on an express elevator to Hell… Going down!”

    ![gif](giphy|ZuRkV9FEo1dra)

  3. If I understand correctly, that flip at the end is to ‘dig’ the spacecraft into the atmosphere to avoid skipping right back out into space.

  4. RAWpapers4dayz on

    What I want to know is how they fixed the problem without testing it a 2nd time. What if they just exacerbated the problem…

  5. AmazingGrace_00 on

    Imagine seeing earth just a short while ago as a distant blue orb behind the moon. And now….

  6. EastHillWill on

    Dumb question: is a slow re-entry not possible, at a speed that minimizes the intense heat and friction? Is it not possible to come back down at a highly obtuse angle at a couple hundred MPH?

  7. jakethunderpants on

    GoPro and Redbull need to team up and sponsor a space mission. The re-entry shots would be epic.

  8. Possible_Praline_169 on

    Saw a report that they found excessive scorching from this re-entry; hope they fixed it better this time

  9. Where the eff are the stars? The Milky Way. The galactic clouds. Makes no sense.