Orion Capsule from Artemis II mission
Posted by mccolm3238@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 33 comments
Had the unique opportunity to see the Orion capsule from the Artemis II mission onboard the USS Murtha yesterday. What a amazing experience!
Full-Boysenberry-368@reddit
Did you stop by the merch stand??
mccolm3238@reddit (OP)
I got the non-nasa patch from the USS Murtha ship patch.
mccolm3238@reddit (OP)
FxckFxntxnyl@reddit
Gives me too much of the r/iamverybadass vibes :/
Katsu_Vohlakari@reddit
Looks a bit AI generated tbh :/. Wished they went with a traditional embroidered design.
tractorcrusher@reddit
Whoops, extra tooth
Yomammasson@reddit
100%. This is garbage
Full-Boysenberry-368@reddit
Hell yeah, That’s awesome!
OriginalGoat1@reddit
It’s a lot larger than the Apollo capsule.
JohnDisinformation@reddit
Thats a Dalek?
zerbey@reddit
Waiting to see how the heat shield held up, hoping for good news.
Sixguns1977@reddit
They made it home, so good, right?
danit0ba94@reddit
That's "good enough" tier.
And that's not good enough.
Sixguns1977@reddit
I'm honestly not familiar with the criteria. I thought if they made it back then it was good.
Probodyne@reddit
It's not just about making it back once. It's about making sure that they can make it back every time no matter the edge case. Theoretically the heat shield could have failed*, and that's unacceptable even though it was fine this time.
Pushing the edges of safety margins is how the Challenger disaster happened and it should not be normalised.
*See pages 8-11 for more information
Sixguns1977@reddit
I didn't know that it was near the edge to begin with. Just to clarify, you mean the design working every time, not that particular shield, right? Or are they not single use?
What you're saying makes perfect sense to me, I occasionally do submarine parts when not making ROV parts.
JohnnyChutzpah@reddit
They are single use. The commenter means that every new shield needs to work. Since the first one had major chunks missing and could have burned through, then that means they had a design or manufacturing problem that could cause future shields to fail catastrophically.
Once we get pics of the Artemis 2 shield we will see if they fixed it or not.
Things_In_Austin@reddit
First heat shield came back with large chunks missing. They changed the manufacturing process for the heat shields based on Artemis I. If you had worse spallation, or in a different area, it could result in the loss of the craft.
https://youtu.be/shcj7MUK5BU
Sixguns1977@reddit
Roger that, I didn't know.
rhineauto@reddit
I think they've got a modified design for future missions anyway, though.
Harabeck@reddit
Yes, that's my understanding as well. Artemis 3 and forward will use heatshields with additional "structure" amongst the ablative material to help prevent the pitting seen in Artemis 1. I believe Scott Manley's video touches on it.
OrneryZombie1983@reddit
Where is it going to end up? Smithsonian? KSC? Houston?
Harabeck@reddit
I believe NSF stated on stream that it would go to KSC for study.
OrneryZombie1983@reddit
Is that a euphemism for "chopped into pieces"?
samgarita@reddit
Craigslist
OrneryZombie1983@reddit
"No lowballs. I know what I got."
space-ghxst@reddit
“She’s got a few thousand miles on her but still drives like brand new”
RobotMaster1@reddit
The hope is that NASA Johnson gets it to shut Cornyn and Cruz up about moving Discovery.
Degora2k@reddit
Why do they put those covers over the windows?
richiehill@reddit
So you can’t see in would be my guess. I’m assuming there’s tech in there NASA don’t want shared with the rest of the world.
Emotional-Ad-6494@reddit
I feel dumb… this is way bigger than I thought it looked when they landed lol
RobotMaster1@reddit
everything about moon rockets is enormous. you can barely see the astronauts here.
Jealous_Acorn@reddit
Beautiful. Sci-fi except it's non-fiction.