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What is that transition like for them? imagine, you re traveling around the earth at a speed of, you know, 17,500 miles per hour. you re higher than the international space station. and then you slowly start this deorbit burn and begin the process of reentering the ea earth s atmosphere. and when doug hurley and bob benkin, who were the crew of demo 2 and these are professional nasa slastronauts, military test pilots, people who have been training their whole lives for this. when they experienced what the crew of inspiration 4 just experienced, they said it felt as though they were inside a leaving and breathing animal, kind of like a dragon, like the crew capsule is called. and they also said at every single separation event, it felt as though the back of their chair or seat was getting whacked with a baseball bat. these are significant events that happen as they reopen the earth s atmosphere. they are experiencing temperatures or the capsule ....