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Michelle lyons reporting there. nasa�*s 0rion space capsule is due to return to earth in just a few hours�* time, ending a three week test mission around the moon. the unmanned capsule will splash down in the pacific ocean, off the coast of california. if it goes smoothly, engineers could determine that its ready to take astronauts back to moon later this decade. i�*m joined now by dr megan argo, who is an astro—physicist at the university of central lancashire. good afternoon. remind us first of all, what was the purpose of this mission? to all, what was the purpose of this mission? ....

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To hit going back from the moon, you travel quite a long way and hitting a very small target is quite a feat but it is a very narrow window because if you hit the atmosphere to steep, that an are too high and a rocket risks burning up on re—entry, if you come in shell you can skip off and go back out into space and then you need a lot of fuel to turn around and come back again. unless you have that fuel you are lost, you can come back, so you have to hit that really accurate small target on the earths atmosphere to come back safely. some people might think we have had astronauts on the moon,...

Spacecraft bobbing in the pacific ocean and pretty soon you will start to see a team of essentially navy divers swarming this spacecraft. there's about four navy boats, two inflatable, just off to the side of that screen from what you can see there, the four big p parachutes that helped slow it down on re-entry. the divers will get up really close to the spacecraft, take a good look at it, check for damage, perform additional tests, make sure the all-important heat shield performed as it was supposed to and then, fredricka, what we will see is a big navy ship "the uss portland," the prime reco...