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Kate >> priscilla, thank you. tonight, nasa is celebrating a picture perfect ending to the artemis i lunar mission. the orion spacecraft reentered the earths atmosphere at almost 24,000 miles an hour a critical uncrewed test flight before nasa puts humans on the next mission to the moon, possibly within two years heres tom costello. >> reporter: and there it is, high over the pacific. >> reporter: 12:40 p.m. eastern time, 300 miles south of san diego. >> splashdown. >> reporter: nasas uncrewed...

Take risks when there is people on board. on first there wasnt any people on board the spacecraft, there will be on board the spacecraft, there will be in the future. it is definitely exciting to see come and i cant wait for artemis to to come in the next couple of years. it artemis to to come in the next couple of years.— artemis to to come in the next couple of years. it is a successful splashdown. _ couple of years. it is a successful splashdown, but _ couple of years. it is a successful sp...

Its time for the orion spacecraft to come home. these pictures taken just after it entered the earths atmosphere, 0rion has travel faster and hotter than any space vehicle before. the spacecraft about to go subsonic. a series of parachutes open, rapidly slowing down the capsule. weve got three good main chutes for 0rion, and there it is, high over the pacific, americas new ticket to ride to the moon and beyond in view. then splashdown — the artemis mission complete. from tranquility base to ta...

After a million mile journey through space, its time for the orion spacecraft to come home. with images taken from the capsule, it enters the earths atmosphere. the spacecraft about to go subsonic. a series of parachutes open... and there it is, high over the pacific, americas new ticket to ride to the moon and beyond now in view. ..then splashdown — the artemis mission is complete. the latest chapter of nasas journey to the moon comes to a close. we are adventurers. we are explorers. we alway...

Latest covid booster and adriana, about a third say they dont plan on getting a flu shot at all. >> danya, thanks so much. nasas artemis lunar 1 mission is expected the end tomorrow with a splashdown in the pacific ocean. theyre training to retrieve the unmanned capsule. if all goes well, nasa could return astronauts to the moon in 2025. there was a very special christmas parade in london today. 60 dog owners and their corgis gather in honor of the late queen elizabeth. corgis were her life lo...

Nasas next giant leap into space exploration took another step today. it is artemiss mission. it ended with a successful splashdown. the capsule touched down in the pacific ocean earlier today after a 25-day journey around the moon and back. this sets the stage for the next mission. >> reporter: a textbook splashdown for the orion spacecraft, capping off a successful artemis 1 mission, the return of american astronauts to the moon for the first time since the apollo program. whats wild about the...

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Initial assessment right now is appears there has been no damage to that capsule, so i imagine kristin, this is the celebratory phase for the number of people involved in the success of orion and its splashdown here and it also appears one of the helicopters is even closer to the surface there, perhaps thats the phase in which some of the divers are dropped into the water, utilized here, and look closer at the capsule? >> yes, and you know, again, i am on a delay. what -- i mean, nasa is going t...

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Test run for future flights with astronauts on board. lets bring in a professor of astro physics at the university of pro-crochester. so good to see you, adam. so how is todays splashdown different, perhaps, than the kind of reentries that we have seen in the past? >> yeah, you know, the interesting thing about artemis is all of these new technologies that we have developed since apollo, so were coming in with the artemis -- the capsule in a way that apollo never did. were going to skip off the ...