Post-recovery inspections revealed that the Artemis II Orion heat shield had suffered less ablation and damage than the heat shield used on Artemis I.
Credit: Matt Hartman
As preparations for NASA’s next Artemis mission accelerate, the agency and its mission partners aim to maximize lessons learned from Integrity, the Orion spacecraft that returned the Artemis II crew safely to Earth on April 10 after a fiery reentry at 24,664 mph and a lunar roundtrip of almost 695...
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