00:00At their first press conference from space, four astronauts talk about their preparations to re-enter Earth's atmosphere in a,
00:07quote, fireball.
00:09Traveling back to Earth from the far side of the moon, they will reach speeds of more than 38,000
00:13kilometers per hour as they enter the atmosphere.
00:16It's a high-risk phase of the mission that will put Orion's heat shield to the test.
00:20Flying in their Orion capsule since launching from Florida last week, the Artemis 2 crew are due to splash down
00:26off the Southern California coast on Friday evening.
00:28That's Saturday morning in the Philippines.
00:31Asked how he's feeling about the return, Artemis 2 mission pilot Victor Glover says,
00:35I've actually been thinking about entry since April 3, 2023, when we got assigned to this mission.
00:41NASA astronaut Christina Koch describes the mission series as a relay race.
00:45There'll be a lunar landing targeted by 2028 and construction of a moon base over the next decade.
00:50In fact, we have batons that we bought to symbolize physically that.
00:55We plan to hand them to the next crew, and every single thing that we do is with them in
01:00mind.
01:00We've really just worked to make sure that they are set up for success, and that's all of the teams.
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