Tim Dodd

I think it's something like 420 kilometers, 420,000 kilometers, 420,000 kilometers.

Something around there.

Uh, Apollo never really got more than 400.

I think Apollo 13, I think was technically the furthest.

Um,

Yeah.

So it's, it's a little beyond that as well.

So I find that exciting.

Cause it's like, let's do it, you know, let's get humans back to the moon.

They'll fly, you know, around and through portions of the van Allen radiation belts, just like Apollo had to.

So we'll see that all again.

And yeah.

Basically a shakedown of the, of the Orion capsule, a crude to test the capsule, test the capsule, make sure all the life support works, the communication systems work, the, the toilet works, make sure, uh, you know, the sole has its own solar arrays instead of, uh, having a built in fuel cell like the Apollo program did as a lot of different systems.

And it's doing things in a, in a new, and you know, even like digital avionics, like it has, you know, actual computers on board.

Yeah.

As opposed to like the big old school, you know, you could almost call them like in aviation, call them like steam gauges, you know, like the Apollo capsule is full of just like hardware, you know, and very little computer memory, famously very little computer memory, computing power.

So this is a modern, you know, modern avionics and it's going to be a full shakedown.

They did an uncrewed test in 2022.

And this will be the first time humans fly on it though, with, with all like an all up shakedown of the whole thing.

And it's kind of,