NASA’s Orion spacecraft has completed a 1.4 million-mile journey around the moon. It then re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. This event caused excitement throughout the scientific world last year. NASA will celebrate the completion of this historic mission. The spacecraft recorded what it saw. To commemorate this successful mission, NASA released a reentry video showing what the spacecraft saw as it returned to the Earth’s surface. Here are the details…
NASA shared the breathtaking video of the Orion Spacecraft entering the atmosphere!
To celebrate the success of the Orion Spacecraft, NASA shared a video on Twitter under the former name X. Last year, the Orion Spacecraft completed its 1.4 million-mile journey around the Moon. It successfully entered the Earth’s atmosphere. He did not forget to record all these moments with his camera. Additionally, NASA shared the link to the entire video for those who want to watch the entire journey.
The Orion Spacecraft is part of the Artemis I mission. The purpose of this mission was to see how well the spacecraft could handle travel in space. With this mission, NASA proved that Artemis I was so successful. NASA is already looking forward to Artemis II, which will see astronauts travel to the moon and back in the spacecraft. In fact, they will not land on our planet’s moon in the Artemis II mission. But this mission will help prove that Orion is worthy of going to the lunar surface for Artemis III.
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The full-length video showing Orion’s re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere is 25 minutes long. This video also shows the spacecraft slowly falling towards the Earth’s surface before crashing into the atmosphere once again.
As it hits the atmosphere, hot flames can be seen behind it, caused by the friction of the spacecraft falling through our planet’s protective shell. This shows how strong the reentry force can be. You can even hear the sounds of the spacecraft completing its reentry in the video.