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Artemis II crew face fiery atmospheric reentry test
Original: Artemis II reentry and the risks of ‘riding a fireball through the atmosphere’
Attention is turning to the Artemis II mission's return to Earth, with coverage describing reentry as 'riding a fireball through the atmosphere.' The crewed flight around the Moon must survive extreme heat and plasma conditions as it plunges back through the atmosphere, a critical phase NASA has only tested once before with an uncrewed capsule.
Why now: NASA's Artemis II lunar mission is putting a crew through the Moon mission's most dangerous phase, atmospheric reentry, for the first time since Apollo.
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