The Artemis II Astronauts are expected to splashdown off the coast of San Diego at 7:07 pm CST tonight. <\/p>\n
Space Editor of Ars Technica, Eric Berger, says about 14 mins before splashdown Orion will meet the earth\u2019s atmosphere. As the spacecraft decreases speed, the capsule will heat up as it slows down moving through the atmosphere. \u201cThree smaller parachutes called drogues will deploy, followed by 3 mains will come out about a minute or so before splashdown and they\u2019ll slow the vehicle down to 20 mph.\u201d Berger said. <\/p>\n
When speaking with Houston\u2019s Mission Control on Thursday, the person crew shared their experience, as the astronauts named 2 lunar craters, with one being named after Astronaut Reid Wiseman\u2019s late wife, Carroll, a Friendswood RN who died of cancer in 2020. They also brought the Apollo 13 American flag with them and as they memorialized the great event. Berger says the crew described seeing a sunrise, sunset, and lunar eclipse at which they captured stunning photos. <\/p>\n
Weather conditions look favorable for the landing with low winds and little chance of precipitation. \u201cThey should be good to go for weather. They have alternative sites in the Pacific, but the primary site looks pretty good.\u201d He said. <\/p>\n
He says NASA plans to have several Artemis missions. Next year they will kick off Artemis 3 with Orion landing in a lower earth orbit, followed by Artemis 4 with boots on the moon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Artemis II Astronauts are expected to splashdown off the coast of San Diego at 7:07 pm CST…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":717875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[4345,425,50,358,3187],"class_list":{"0":"post-717874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-houston","9":"tag-local","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116379884909066694","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}