Orion Crew Returns After Historic Lunar Mission | KeepTrack Space Brief
Artemis 2's four-person crew splashed down April 10 after first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17. Orion performance data critical for Artemis 3 south pole landing planning.
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Integrity Comes Home
Six minutes and eighteen seconds of radio silence at 24,661 mph, and then the parachutes appeared. The heat shield question everyone had been asking for three years finally has a preliminary answer - though the full inspection report is still weeks away.
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The $30 Million Toilet That Keeps Breaking on the Way to the Moon
Sixty years of space toilet engineering, a decade of development, and a $30 million contract - and the Artemis II crew still had to pee in bags on Day 1.
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Artemis II
Four astronauts, a patched-together heat shield, and a $50 billion question: whether NASA can still send humans beyond low Earth orbit. Tomorrow, we find out.
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Tracking Artemis II in KeepTrack
SLS cleared the tower at 6:35 PM. Now you can follow Orion's entire cislunar trajectory in 3D - from Earth orbit to the far side of the Moon and back.