an hour. 5,000 degrees fahrenheit, and it did that twice, as it dipped into the atmosphere and let off that speed, and then came back up, about 150,000 feet, and then dipped in in a steep dive again to bleed off more speed and then came on in. so, everything worked. and as we know, this was not a manned mission, but we know that that s nasa s hope. when do you think we will know about a human crew. might we get an announcement soon? would you like to make some news here. as a matter of fact, you re going to hear pretty soon. we are going to encourage the headquarters here down in the johnson space center in houston, we are going to ask them to go ahead and make their selection, and by the way i think they
the orion capsule will separate from its service module then complete a skip maneuver off the edge of the earth s atmosphere which will bring it closer to its landing site and cut down on the g forces that future astronauts will have to endure. after that all eyes are on the heat shield as orion blazes back to earth at temperatures twice as hot as molten lava. nasa says the heat shield has been tested more than 1,000 times and making sure it can take the heat is one of the primary goals of this mission. from the outset the uncrewed artemis i mission has been a dry run to make sure the spacecraft is safe enough for astronauts to fly on board. we are stressing it and testing it in ways that we will not do to a rocket that has a human crew on it. reporter: if artemis i is a success it will be followed by
after that all eyes are on the heat shield as orion blazes back to earth at temperatures twice as hot as molten lava. nasa says the heat shield has been tested more than 1,000 times and making sure it can take the heat is one of the primary goals this have mission. from the outset the uncrewed mission has been a dry run to make sure the spacecraft is safe enough for astronauts to fly on board. we are stressing it and testing it in ways that we will not do to a rocket that has a human crew on it. reporter: if artemis i is a success it will be followed by artemis ii which like the first mission will fly around the moon but this time with a crew, that will be followed by artemis iii which intends to return astronauts to the moon surface including the first woman and person of color. later missions will aim even
after that, all eyes on the heat shield as orion blazes back to earth at temperatures twice as hot as molten lava. nasa says the heat shield has been tested more than 1,000 time times and making sure it can take the heat is one of the primary goals of this mission. from the outset, the uncrewed artemis mission has been a dry run to make sure the spacecraft is safe enough for astronauts to . we are stressing it and testing it in ways that we will not do to a rocket that has a human crew on it. reporter: if artemis 1 is success, it will be followed by artemis 2 which, like the first mission, will fly around the moon, but this time with a crew. that will be followed by artemis 3, which intends to return astronauts to the moon s surface, including the first woman and person of color. later missions will aim even further, with the goal of
it was coming in at 25,000 miles an hour, 5000 degrees fahrenheit. and it did that twice as it dipped into the atmosphere and lead off that speed, and then came back up about 150,000 feet. and then dipped in, in this deep dive again to get more speed, then came on in. so, everything worked. and as we know, this was not a manned mission, but we know that nasa s hope. when do you think we will know about human crew? might we get an announcement soon? would you like to make some news here? as a matter of fact, you are going to hear pretty soon. we are going to encourage the headquarters here down in the johnson space center in houston, we re gonna ask them to go ahead and make their selection,