It will be the first time humans will travel on the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft, and would also be the farthest we have travelled from Earth in the last 50 years.
Heat shields keep incoming spacecraft from burning up in planetary atmospheres. Now we're learning that different atmospheres have different effects.
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Do you know what heat shields really do?
A simple science explanation of how heat shields protect spacecraft and other vehicles from extreme temperatures by managing and redirecting intense heat.
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