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The Artemis II team’s view of reentry, taped from inside the Orion pill. Astronaut Jeremy Hansen explains the sensation “as if Thor himself were hammering on our spacecraft.”
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After 9 days in area, the 4 crewmembers of NASA’s Artemis II objective watched out their pill window on April 10, 2026, and saw the bright-blue Earth listed below them. The team had actually taken a trip more than 250,000 miles(400,000 kilometers)from our world– further from Earth than any people had actually ever gone– and now, home was simply a couple of hundred miles directly down.
Just one turning point stayed: splashdowna quick and intense plunge into the Pacific Ocean that would mark completion of mankind’s very first crewed objective to the moon in more than 50 years.Mission professional Jeremy Hansen, the only Canadian Space Agency astronaut on the team, had every factor to be positive that the group’s Orion team pill would hold up simply fine. This was Hansen’s very first time in area, and his very first time dropping through the sky like a fireball at 24,600 miles per hour (39,600 kmh).
John Larsen is a previous executive-level military public affairs officer who served with the Royal Canadian Air Force throughout fight operations in Europe. Based in Calgary, AB, he is a company consultant, business owner, author, and university trainer. He holds academic degrees in Communications and in Creative Non-Fiction Writing. Earthrise is his 2nd book.
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