race too much. my focus is on the hardware, making it safe and operable for my crewmates who will fly on it. that s my focus today. i will make a really good test flight and we prove out all the systems and we exercise them extra hard so that we re confident we put our friends on board that they ll work correctly. i want to ask you about the orion spacecraft that is spin your project that you have been focusing on and given your experience and your time towards. talk to us about the heat shield, heat shield on the orion spacecraft is really a critical issue, right? absolutely. if you look at nasa s goals for this flight, the number one goal with all of that hardware on the path and everything that is going to go flying his to test the heat shield on a ryan. we have tested bigger heat shields before, like on the space shuttle, and we have tested heat shields that have to enter atmospheres at higher
have gone. nasa is going to lose contact with orion when it is on the far side of the moon. it will be circling the moon for about a week. to get back to earth, they are going to use a lunar gravity assist slingshot. they re gonna fire their own engines. they will come hurtling back to years. again, faster and harder than ever before. big test for those heat shields. tiffany, i want to show you a little bit of all the components of the rocket. i will show you how we ll get around in there. these are the most efficient engines ever built. these boosters, each one of them is 17 stories tall. each one generates more throws than 14 jumbo airliners. we have the core stage. this is the backbone of the rocket. all of these components are going to break off. the upper state is going to propel all ryan. the orion spacecraft, there is a rowing machine, a toilet, pretty incredible. tiffany, as you mentioned are gonna be no humans on board. this is just a big test to make sure the technology works
can t drain a swimming pool in a minute. an hour and a half after the, launch a right is now on a lunar trajectory. and ryan is going to travel in distant retrograde around the moon. traveling nearly 1000 times farther from the distance between the iss and earth. the return is really a test here for the heat shields around the. ryan protected for the nearly 5000 degrees fahrenheit. then we will see two initial parachutes deployed in less than 20 minutes, when arrival go from brock 32 to 0 at slash town. these are fantastic, nominations obviously. it s not just, video this is actually happen. but this everything about this. people like me who grew up watching rocket launchers and they try to launchers, there is some sadness that these things don t have the energy that they used to have for everybody. this is going to feel like an old-fashioned rocket launch, and it is actually bigger. it will be bigger and no easier and more impressive to watch
this whole thing. so it is not just a return scientifically and engineering ali, it is a return to the glory of space. it certainly is. it is not necessarily just a return. there is going to be new technology. take a look at this orbit. here we have a riot blasting off, this is the lunar trajectory. first there is a very close fly by of the moon, within about 60 miles, and then there is going to be this distant space. this is distant rush for grade. this is further than any human spacecraft built for humans will have gone. then we get the lunar gravity assist, from the winds gravity. then back on the course for earth. really, it is the technology that is. new bigger, better, greater, hotter, faster, all of that. like everything else, they to parts that matter are the launch, which you can see and feel. i remember being on the shuttle launch, in all my experience i have never felt anything like that. and then there is that return. those heat shields. that is the thing that they alwa
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