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#HotelMars; Orion success and Starship promise. Doug Messier, Parabolic Arc. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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#HotelMars; Orion success and Starship promise. Doug Messier, Parabolic Arc. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/updates-orion-splashes-down-in-pacific-ocean-concluding-nasas-artemis-i-moon-mission/ar-AA159D5H

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0:57.0

to launch starship in preparation for launching on the moon and Mars. Doug, a very good evening

1:04.7

to you. I read from NASA's announcement on the successful return of the Lockheed

1:10.1

built Orion spacecraft. NASA's Orion spacecraft splashed down Pacific Ocean, West to Baja, California,

1:17.3

Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than 1.4 million miles on a path around

1:23.7

the moon, returning safely to Earth, completing the Artemis flight test. Your measure of this

1:29.9

Doug is NASA's satisfied with the spacecraft with the SLS launch, and are they looking

1:35.4

to the future now to a man mission? Good evening to you, Doug.

1:39.2

Good evening, John. Yeah, NASA's very thrilled with the results of the mission. As far as

1:45.8

they know, it went pretty close to perfectly. Of course, as a flight test, they did have

1:51.7

some communication dropouts, but nothing serious. The space launch system, which consisted

1:57.5

of a large core tank, large core stage with four shuttle-era main engines and two rocket

2:06.4

boosters performed better than expected, delivered the ship. The upper stage did exactly

2:13.8

what it was supposed to do. The mission lasted about 25 and a half days in which they flew

2:21.0

around the moon and out beyond it. They came in and landed in the Pacific exactly as planned.

2:29.7

So it's about as good a flight test as you can ever hope for. They're looking to the

2:36.4

future. The future is the Artemis-2 mission, which will send four astronauts back to the

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