{"id":576700,"date":"2026-04-10T21:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576700\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T21:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T21:48:09","slug":"live-updates-artemis-ii-astronauts-to-make-splashdown-return-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/576700\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: Artemis II astronauts to make splashdown return to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/pia24319-large.jpg?c=original&amp;q=w_1280,c_fill\/f_avif\" alt=\"An illustration of NASA's Perseverance rover landing safely on Mars. Hundreds of critical events needed to execute perfectly and exactly on time for the rover to land safely.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1080\" width=\"1920\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmnrztuxm0003356sagjwkcyx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            During the entry, descent and landing of NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover on Mars, teams referred to that phase as \u201c7 minutes of terror.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmns023zo0006356sjnglb7pj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            When asked how those in Mission Control think about Orion\u2019s entry, descent and landing, which will take about 13 minutes, flight director Jeff Radigan said it\u2019s \u201cabout an hour and a half of things that have to go right.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmns03p8t0007356sndh7gpw1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            He went down the checklist of what occurs during that crucial 90-minute window before splashdown, including separation of the service module from the crew capsule, the release of the forward bay cover, the subsequent releases of three different sets of parachutes, achieving the right touchdown angle and of course, the heat shield has to protect the astronauts during the blistering heat of reentry.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmns0dl7r0008356sga8sqqj5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The service module includes the engines responsible for the burns that have kept the capsule moving along the right trajectory in space, and separation will expose the heat shield.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmns0eqnk0009356soqapocib@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The release of the forward bay cover is simply a means to enable parachutes to deploy. First, drogue parachutes will release to begin slowing down Orion\u2019s descent, followed by pilot parachutes that are responsible for unfurling the capsule\u2019s three main parachutes that further reduce Orion\u2019s speed from 130 to 17 miles per hour (about 200 to 30 kilometers per hour) before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the entry, descent and landing of NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover on Mars, teams referred to that phase as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-576700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}