Space – ᴴᴰ Full Onboard Re-entry into Earth’s Atmosphere ● New NASA Spacecraft

 

ᴴᴰ Full Onboard Re-entry into Earth’s Atmosphere ● New NASA Spacecraft
Onboard ride during the re-entry of Orion shows the extreme conditions a spacecraft endures as it returns to Earth.. Orion launched on its first test flight of two orbits in 4.5 hours on Dec.5 – 2014. … Enable Annotations for Metric values
EFT 1 traveled 3,600 miles above Earth to test the new vehicle. It was NASA’s furthest & fastest capsule mission since Apollo.
The new spacecraft landed in the Pacific Ocean under its three main parachutes.