NASA picked a very good morning to return from the moon
Space Launch System moon rocket—a machine that, with its 4 million kg of thrust, is the most powerful rocket ever launched. The Orion spacecraft took five days to reach the vicinity of the moon, then fired its engine to brake its speed slightly and enter lunar orbit. It spent the next two weeks making two wide, looping circuits around the moon, twice passing as close as 129 km from the surface.
Orion was flying at about 40,000 km/h when it slammed into the atmosphere, beginning a plunge that would ultimately cause its heat shield to withstand temperatures of 2,760º C . During its descent it successfully pulled off a never-before-tried maneuver known as aThe spacecraft initially plunged to an altitude of 61,000 m —or about 61 km . Then it rolled 180 degrees—so that future astronauts who were sitting straight up inside would now be upside down—changing its center of gravity.
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