In hopes of finding a habitable environment on the moon, Japan hopes to successfully accomplish its first-ever "pinpoint landing" on the lunar surface.
testament to the people who did the work, and the second was just just coming in blisteringly fast. it s as if we threw the rock off the moon in fill all the way to the earth, so is coming in at 25,000 miles an hour and so we needed the heat shield to protect the ship for the next time we had people on board with pinpoint landing the vehicle looks pristine it just sets this up so well for all the things that are coming in the future it s just like a door got kicked wide open today by the great pristine technology that we demonstrated, and to me is just so inspirational and exciting, give people an almost impossible challenge and it s amazing how the best and the brightest really respond. there s always bad stuff going on that this is an amazing and hopeful and inspiring thing going on in the world. colonel chris hadfield there. it has been nearly 34 years
this was just coming in blisteringly fast all the way it s as if we threw a rock off the moon and it fell all the way to the earth. it was coming in at 25,000 miles an hour, and so we needed the heat shield to protect the ship for the next time we put people onboard, and both of those things, pinpoint landing. the vehicle looks pristine. it just sets us up so well for all of the things coming in the future. and that would have been perhaps the most vulnerable time for that capsule, right, for the heat shield to deteriorate, to withstand or not be able to with is stand 5,000 degrees fahrenheit. so what were your feelings as it appeared to have no damage when it splashed down? i ve re-entered earth as atmosphere three times. oh, gosh. on the third flight i was in a capsule, one of the russian capsules, and you can actually manually fly it by hand down through the atmosphere. and so as a pilot, i was sort of doing this same thing orion was