Caroline Hyde

That should be their hit velocity, you know, under parachutes going nice and slow coming down into the Pacific.

And another number I love is the heat shield gets to be about the temperature of the surface of the sun, about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

That's really hot.

And so this is one of the biggest challenges of spaceflight is our atmosphere is great to help us slow down, but it heats the heck out of everything.

So we've got to make sure those heat shields work.

And I think the work between Lockheed Martin and NASA and probably subject matter experts even beyond those two organizations

have really contributed to the confidence that we have going in to today's reentry, but we'll still all be on pins and needles.

I mean, and the confidence that's been built over the last nine days or so.

This mission, and we don't want to touch on all the wood here at the moment, but has been remarkably successful.

It has.

And look, we will celebrate like crazy once the astronauts are back on Earth.

And then we can really breathe and take that moment to celebrate what an extraordinary accomplishment here in the year of the 250th birthday of our country today.

to once again inspire the nation and really the world with great science.

Their flyby of the moon was, as a scientist, it made my heart go pitter-patter.

And also all of the data and information that we've gained about Orion and how it works and whether there are things we'll need to tweak before future missions.

A lot of that data is resident on the capsule itself and in the brains of the astronauts.

All of that will get downloaded once they're back on Earth.

And then push us forward to Artemis 3 then.

Right.

So, and it's going to go fast now.