00:00The number of human beings who have traveled to the moon is expected to grow on Friday night when the
00:07Artemis II crew complete their splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
00:12The re-entry is considered the most dangerous part of the mission, with NASA's Orion capsule expected to endure temperatures
00:20of nearly 2760 Celsius, about half as hot as the sun's surface.
00:28The splashdown sequence, beginning with the separation of the European service module, takes roughly 42 minutes to complete and involves
00:3711 parachutes.
00:39Commander Reed Wiseman and his crew will be the first people to travel beyond lower Earth orbit since the final
00:45mission of the Apollo program in December 1972.
00:51Artemis II didn't land on the moon or even orbit it, but it broke Apollo 13's distance record, making the
00:58astronauts the farthest that humans have ever journeyed from Earth.
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