NASA's Artemis I spent 25 days in space, traveling more than a million miles to the moon and back. But as it got closer to the earth, it was San Diego's stormy weather that delayed its return.
to mars. nasa sharing images of the orion on the way to san diego aboard the uss portland. memories of apollo. it looks like the capsule from the late 60s and 70s. it had a successful splash down there on sunday. data will be analyzed in preparation for phase two which is sending astronauts to orbit the moon. i want to bring in jonathan mcdowell for his expertise. he s an astrophysicist at the center for astro physics. i m all about space and i love all of this and i love covering it. let s go as far as we can. this is a very expensive way to do it. using a lot of old technology to do so. but it is going to the moon. we ve been there. 50 some odd years ago. is it all worth it as a stepping-stone on to mars as sts described in. i think it is important regain the ability to go back
temperature of the heat shield and how it stood up and temperatures inside the module itself to see how long astronauts in the future missions would be able to stand inside the module, temperatures there and whether or not the cooling system, when it reentered, it reached 5000 ° on the bottom of that module. obviously they ve got things aboard to try to keep that cooling down for the astronauts and that is one thing they are looking at. they will bring that into the uss portland shortly and a lot of additional studies will be done. eric: all set to try to get outposts, we are going to have outposts on the moon within a decade. we will see. alicia: see you back here at 4:00 pm eastern. and an available 400 miles of range on a full charge.