completed a series of history making events. reporter: a key objective is to test the heat shield. it is moving 24,000 miles an hour, 7 miles a second. the heatshield will get 5000 °. they are trying to skip reentry. the capsule will enter the s for, bounce back up, to reduce the heat and the g forces on the astronauts on reentry. 11 parachutes are going to slow this thing down to 20 miles an hour before it hits the water. recovery vessels, several navy ships, are there to bring in the orbiter if you will. the cost of this about $93 billion for all four of these missions. in 2,024, four astronauts will go up. the following year they will land on the moon. by 2027 we hope to have a lunar lander up there to prove we can live and work in space for a longer period. alicia: this is also cool. thank you.
during that time the heat shield will a plate, meaning it will shed material. at one point the capsule will roll 180 degrees and go back up out into space. because it s going to need more time to cool. then it will reenter a second time and land precisely 50 miles off the coast of san diego. wow. so this has not been done before. it s very exciting. i know everybody brilliant folks at nasa. make no mistake. this is still a daunting challenge, and they re up for it. what is the difference in the space of time? is it a matter of minutes, hours? we re talking about a matter of minutes. we re going to go down range. it depends on a lot of factors. but the reason to do this skip reentry is to try to, as
world for long periods of time. when you go to mars, you have to be willing to stay. a lot of people don t realize earth and mars, we re on the same side of the sun every 26 months. you have to be willing to stay. we need a place to learn to live and work for long periods of time. moon is that destination. tomorrow is a really big day and a lot of things are going to be tested. we re going to learn a lot of things. we all have our fingers crossed. reentering the earth s atmosphere is not easy, especially the way they are doing it now, which has never been done before. what are we going to learn about this reentry? what are the things we can glean from it? so this is called a skip reentry, which is think of skipping a rock. so the orion crew capsule will come back at 20,000 miles per hour. it s going to reenter the atmosphere, heat up to about half the temperature of the sun.