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Anna Desmarais

'Riding a fireball through atmosphere': How Artemis II astronauts will return to Earth

After a record-breaking week in space, the four astronauts on NASA’s 10-day lunar flyby Artemis II mission are getting ready for the most intense part of their journey: the return to Earth.

In 13 minutes, the Orion spacecraft will fall over 400,000 feet (121 kilometres) and travel almost 2,000 miles (3,218 kilometres) over the Pacific Ocean to a special "splashdown" site off the coast of California.

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