battery power. it can produce its own power. now, ali, i want to show you a little bit more about that. in order for awry and leave earth orbit, something big has to happen. that s a trans lunar injection. this is about a 20 minute burn. it s going to put orion on a trajectory where it will be traveling faster than a bullet from a high powered rifle. this gets orion on a lunar trajectory, and eventually, orion it s going to be in distant retrograde around to the moon. nasa is actually going to lose connection with orion when it s on the far side of the moon. we are going to get pretty close to the moon. it s going to get about 60 miles away from the surface. it s going to do that for about a week, and then in order to get back to earth, on a trajectory, we will use help from lunar gravitational pull, lunar gravity assist. at the same time, orion will fire its own engines. it s about a four-day coast back to earth. they will target a thin layer atmosphere around earth s atmosphere. you
early as 2025. msnbc s lindsey reiser is joining me here in the studio. it is huge, it is a first time nasa has gone back in 50 years, tell us more about this. mission you mentioned some of the lofty goals, nasa is also trying to build a lunar camp up on the moon in the south pole, and also build an orbiting base camp around the moon. let s go ahead and start with ryan. let s take a look at the rendering about this launch is going to look like. it raised nearly 6 million pounds in stands 32 stories tall. those boosters, each one generates more thrust than 14 commercial jumbo airliners. the sentience consume enough propellant to drain a sorting pool in a mere minutes. an hour to half after the launch the ryan capsule is on a lunar trajectory, and ryan is going to go into distant retrograde around the moon, traveling nearly 1000 times farther than the distance between the international space station and earth. the return is a big task, is a
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
that walk us through the details of? this yasmin, the goals here in addition to getting a man women back on the moon are to build a lunar base camp on the south pole. gateway, which is a spaceship in orbit. this is a big test along the way. let s go ahead and take a look at what we are going to see. the rocket weighs nearly 6 million pounds. it stands 32 stories tall. the boosters generate more thrust, each one, then 14 commercial jumbo airliners. the engines gobble up enough propellant drain a swimming pool in a minute. in an hour and a half after launch orion s been on a lunar trajectory. it will go into distant retrograde around the moon. it will travel nearly 1000 times farther than the distance between the international space station and earth. the return is really a big test to. a test for the heat shield and its ability to protect ryan from nearly 5000 degrees fahrenheit. we are going to see two initial