Four astronauts are back home after a daring ride around the Moon
via arstechnica.com
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Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning home with four astronauts and safely capping humanity’s first voyage to the Moon in nearly 54 years. Temperatures outside the capsule builtup to some 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit as a […]