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Good evening. I'm Aaron Burnett on this Friday and welcome to a very special edition of Outfront on this Friday. Mission to the Moon, Artemis II returns. An incredible moment. We are now about to begin one of the most crucial and critical hours of the entire 10-day mission, the return home, re-entering Earth's orbit.

All right, these are live pictures from inside the spacecraft. Four astronauts are there. They are strapped in. You can see the suits are on. The items are stowed away. They are ready. Okay?

And right now, it almost looks static, right?

Because you're inside the module.

But they are hurtling towards Earth at more than 12,000 miles an hour.

And think about that.

That's what's going on outside in this very peaceful scene that you're looking at.

NASA's flight director says that we are now

in the midst of an hour and a half where things have to go right. And they absolutely do. As we speak,

the crew is making final preparations to separate from the service module. That is a crucial

breaking up that is going to happen in these next few moments, and it will expose the Orion's

heat shield, which is what is going to protect the crew, because they are going to be encountering

temperatures of about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. One of our guests is going to say about half the surface

temperature of the sun. Four minutes later, the crew is then going to perform an 18-second, what is

called a burn, And that is when they

set something that is absolutely crucial. That is the angle at which they will enter the atmosphere.

And that's absolutely crucial, right? That's a make or break moment as well. And then at 753,

what could be the most dangerous moment of the mission? and that is reentering Earth's atmosphere, the formal moment.

At that time, Orion will be traveling nearly 35 times the speed of sound at that moment.

That is video of what the Artemis II reentry looked like back in 2022, right? This is Artemis 2.

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