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‘It’s 13 minutes of things that have to go right’: Artemis II splashes down despite faulty heat shield

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‘It’s 13 minutes of things that have to go right’: Artemis II splashes down despite faulty heat shield
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After nearly 10 days in space, complete with a historic loop around the moon, the four astronauts on NASA’s Artemis II mission faced their most dangerous moment yet: not in deep space, but in the final 13 minutes of their journey home.



“It’s 13 minutes of things that have to go right,” said NASA’s Artemis II flight director Jeff Radigan on Thursday at a news briefing.



Before the Orion spacecraft, named Integrity by the crew, ever left the Kennedy Space Center launchpad in Florida on

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