NASA’s Artemis 1 trek to the Moon is coming to a close, but for the capsule recovery team, its mission is just about to begin.
Orion is expected to splash down about 100 miles west of Guadalupe Island. The original landing site, a spot 60 miles to the west of San Diego, could not be used on account of expected bad weather, as Mike Sarafin, Artemis mission manager, told reporters yesterday. The newly chosen target area is 345 miles up range from the original site and off the coast of Baja, California.
Under normal circumstances, astronauts will exit only after the capsule is safely inside the Navy’s ship, but the recovery team does have the option to extricate crew members while Orion floats in the open water . That said, they’d only be able to do that ifThe team will then prep Orion for its trip to the awaiting dock ship. Divers will attach a winch line and a series of tending lines to the capsule.
the ship and tenderly position it within a specialized assembly known as the “cradle.” The final steps will involve the draining of the well deck and the retrieval of the bay cover and parachutes. An Orion mockup being delivered to the well deck of a Navy vessel during a practice exercise held on December 2, 2022.The process, from splashdown to placement in the cradle, will take between four and five hours, according to Jones. In the event of an emergency, however, the recovery team figures it can get an astronaut to the ship’s medical bay in around 80 to 90 minutes, she added.
the recovery will go exactly as planned and we’ll get to do it all over again in 2024—but with an actual crew on board.
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