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This time it's going to be about 37 days. see my little orion capsule module here, one of the biggest things that's going to be tested is upon re-entry, it's going to be hurtling along, heat shield first, 25,000 miles per hour. our atmosphere is going to give it the brakes to create friction and all of a sudden it's going to be experiencing heat of almost 5,000 dregrees. so that will be another real test. it's something you cannot test here on earth. you have to test for that in a test flight such as this. so the heat shield will be tested. by the time it slows down and the parachutes deploy a...