orion has travelled faster and hotter than any space vehicle has done before. ground control: spacecraft about to go subsonic. - a series of parachutes open, rapidly slowing the capsule down. three good main chutes for orion, and there it is high over the pacific, america s new ticket to ride to the moon and beyond now in view. then splashdown. the artemis mission is complete. from tranquility base to taurus littrow to the tranquil waters of the pacific, the latest chapter of nasa s journey to the moon comes to a close. we are adventurers, we are explorers, we always have a frontier, and that frontier is now to continue exploring the heavens. three, two, one. and liftoff of artemis 1.
about to go subsonic. - a series of parachutes open, rapidly slowing the capsule down. three good main chutes for 0rion, and there it is high over the pacific, america s new ticket to ride to the moon and beyond now in view. then splashdown. the artemis mission is complete. from tranquility base to taurus littrow to the tranquil waters of the pacific, the latest chapter of nasa s journey to the moon comes to a close. we are adventurers, we are explorers, we always have a frontier, and that frontier is now to continue exploring the heavens. ground control: three, two, one. and lift off of artemis 1! the mission blasted off in novemberfrom the kennedy space center on the most powerful rocket nasa has ever built.
fourteen years old, dancing the lead role in swan lake at fifteen. she became the first british ballerina to dance with the bolshoi in moscow and then the first in communist china. an unmanned capsule, that s part of nasa s plan to return astronauts to the moon, has successfully splashed down into the pacific after a three week test mission. it captured images like this, looking back towards earth. 0ur science editor rebecca morelle reports on the end of a key stage of an ambitious programme. after a million milejourney through space, our blue planet comes into view. it s time for the orion spacecraft to come home. with images taken from the capitaljust after it into the capitaljust after it into the earth s atmosphere, 0rion has travelled faster and hotter than any space vehicle has done
this is a huge deal. this this had to be successful in order to move forward to the next missions, to send people around the moon and eventually walk on the moon again, as happened the last time, 50 years ago, so it really needed a flawless test flight, the rocket worked perfectly i was there, i watched it and then, went around the moon, took great pictures, collected great data, all of the hardware worked perfectly. and then, just a few hours ago it splashed down in the ocean, and that was the number one objective of this mission, was test the heat shield coming in at 25,000 miles an hour and heating up to 5000 degrees fahrenheit and would the astronauts, if they had been there, survive, and it all worked out perfectly and the parachutes deployed and they recovered it, so now we can move forward to artemis 2 and artemis 3 and beyond. yes, so, rebecca did mention in her piece there that there s already plans for the next missions. what s the next step for nasa now?
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