Eerie underwater scene found by US Navy divers at site of Artemis touchdown
Yahoo • • science
Key Points:
- Navy divers captured underwater photos of the Artemis 2 crew's return to Earth, providing a rare and stunning perspective of the splashdown.
- These underwater images, along with airborne footage, will help experts analyze the performance of the Orion capsule's heat shield during reentry.
- The heat shield, crucial for crew safety, showed promising results on Artemis 2 after significant damage was sustained during the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission in 2022.
- NASA continues to address multiple challenges in its lunar program, including setbacks faced by Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket, which was grounded by the FAA after a recent launch failure.
- The New Glenn rocket's failure impacts the Artemis 3 mission, where it was expected to play a key role in delivering payloads to orbit.
