NASA's Incredible Video Shows Astronaut's View Of Orion Re-Entry
- 9 years ago
NASA has released a video showing what it looked like from the window of the Orion spacecraft upon its reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
NASA has released a video showing what it looked like from the window of the Orion spacecraft upon its reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
Orion completed its Exploration Flight Test 1 on December 5th after orbiting the planet twice.
While reentering our planet’s atmosphere, the spacecraft traveled at up to 20 thousand miles per hour.
As the temperatures increased from the friction and speed, the plasma changed colors from white to yellow, and then lavender, turning magenta at the hottest point.
Because the temperatures around the spacecraft reached four thousand degrees Fahrenheit, the video signal was lost during the NASA TV broadcast of the footage.
The forward bay cover was removed in the process, and eleven parachutes were deployed to slow Orion down to a landing speed around 20 miles per hour.
NASA officials say the video starts ten minutes before Orion splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off of California.
A team including members of the United States Navy, Air Force and NASA picked up the spacecraft with its burned exterior from the splashdown site, and brought it to the USS Anchorage, before it was trucked to the Kennedy Space Center.
The Orion spacecraft was being tested because NASA reportedly wants to use a similar model to send astronauts to Mars.
NASA has released a video showing what it looked like from the window of the Orion spacecraft upon its reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
Orion completed its Exploration Flight Test 1 on December 5th after orbiting the planet twice.
While reentering our planet’s atmosphere, the spacecraft traveled at up to 20 thousand miles per hour.
As the temperatures increased from the friction and speed, the plasma changed colors from white to yellow, and then lavender, turning magenta at the hottest point.
Because the temperatures around the spacecraft reached four thousand degrees Fahrenheit, the video signal was lost during the NASA TV broadcast of the footage.
The forward bay cover was removed in the process, and eleven parachutes were deployed to slow Orion down to a landing speed around 20 miles per hour.
NASA officials say the video starts ten minutes before Orion splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off of California.
A team including members of the United States Navy, Air Force and NASA picked up the spacecraft with its burned exterior from the splashdown site, and brought it to the USS Anchorage, before it was trucked to the Kennedy Space Center.
The Orion spacecraft was being tested because NASA reportedly wants to use a similar model to send astronauts to Mars.