{"id":22499,"date":"2022-12-10T17:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/10\/nasas-orion-moon-capsule-to-splash-down-on-earth-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-12-10T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T17:34:27","slug":"nasas-orion-moon-capsule-to-splash-down-on-earth-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/10\/nasas-orion-moon-capsule-to-splash-down-on-earth-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA’s Orion Moon capsule to splash down on Earth \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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NASA’s crewless Orion capsule is all set to return to Earth and splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, December 11 after spending nearly a month orbiting the Moon.<\/p>\n

Orion has been hurtling toward home<\/a>, and will reach speeds of 25,000 miles per hour (11.2 kilometres per second) as it gets closer and closer. When the pod punches into the atmosphere, it will slow down to 300 miles per hour (134.1 metres per second) and heat up.<\/p>\n

“Orion will come blazing through Earth’s atmosphere at temperatures twice as hot as molten lava,” Jeremy Vander Kam, deputy system manager working on the spacecraft’s thermal protection system at NASA’s Ames Research Center, said this week. NASA has covered the spacecraft in a material called Avcoat designed to protect and bring the capsule and future lunar astronauts back to Earth in one piece.<\/p>\n

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