The Orion capsule is expected to hit 32 times the speed of sound as it reenters the atmosphere Friday.
HOUSTON — Their dramatic grand finale is fast approaching. Artemis II’s astronauts aimed for a splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first voyage to the moon in more than half a century.
The tension in Mission Control mounted as the miles melted away between the four returning astronauts and Earth.
All eyes were on the capsule’s life-protecting heat shield which has to withstand thousands of degrees during reentry. On the only
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