Anyone watching the retrieval of Artemis I capsule on NASA-TV ?
It is very interesting to watch.
To think that this man-made object has traveled farther in space than any before it and returned to Earth.
It must be very exciting for all involved.
Last I had seen, they had tied it to pontoon boats with ropes, waiting for the ship to pick it up.
They showed a stand-by crew ready to assist loading it on the ship.
They mentioned a two-hour cooling off period for the heat shield and was somehow connected to ammonia on the capsule?
There is a ship on the distant horizon.
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while 'surfing' the web - went to the NASA web site and watched the final 10 minutes and splash-down - and another 10 minutes or so before 'football time!'
Really did stir up the memories of the excitement from the history of the US space program - starting with the Army and Navy each having their own missiles (Vanguard vs. Jupiter C) 'trying' to launch a satellite sooner than the Russians (they didn't!). Stopped at a motel in New York in 1969 to watch the actual moon landing while on a return home trip from Cape Cod ("One small step......"
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