The speed that Artemis II was traveling upon re-entry was like traveling from London to Los Angeles in less than 10 minutes.

#NASA

April 11, 2026 - 00:32 UTC

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33.000 klm per hour
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Damn! 😱 🚀
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Gravity’s a bitch.
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Amazing. And it's kind of funny that on planet earth our speedboats coming to get them took awhile. But it was impressive that everyone knew what to do and how to manage the sea. I understand it was difficult to open the module, but the capable, careful human beings made me feel proud of humanity.
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I feel the same way. I'm proud of everyone who trained for years to make the 10 day trip around the Moon come off flawlessly. It's not an accident it came off so well. Years of training and a sharpened team pulled off one the the most successful NASA missions of all time.

#NASA
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Whew! Glad everyone's safe!
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They be all like -
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That’s an amazing stat.
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oh crap. my head just exploded dude
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Now that they proved that NASA is back, can we please get rid of Elon Musk SpaceX contracts? No need to blow up any more rockets.
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%100 yes. If SpaceX wants to launch rockets let them pay for it %100 with ZERO taxpayer Dollars!

I'd vote for that !
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Wouldn’t that be cool? 👍🏻
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ESO con menos tecnologia y pisando ls Luna ya lo hizo Neil Armstrong en 1969, pero siempre es una gesta salir del Planeta Azul, bienvenidos sanos y salvos
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Byron Allen's show is in space?
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Welcome home!! You are all heroes!
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😲
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Just 👏🏾 amazing
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It’s so incredibly nice to see the American flag and the Canadian flag next to each other after all the negativity from Trump towards our neighbor.
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Until an invasion. 😿

We won't abandon you in your hour of need. I won't.

Because of tv and movies we are very similar but hung on to England longer.

We have less racism related problems I think because of migration from all over the world and no
taste for slavery.
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I just saw that and it made me tear up, thinking of how far we’ve fallen.
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The Artemis mission and NASA is an ultimate good in the world.
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AND experiencing a temperature close to half of that of the suns surface apparently. Double gosh.
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I’m so glad the reentry went well. Whew!
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What an incredibly rare and amazing experience 🤯
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Yeah, and that big ole column of fire is what it takes to get to those speeds.
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Welcome home Thank You All
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No time for peanuts.
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And?Still a complete waste of money.Circling the moon which is a desolate place with dust and rock.Explain to me how this furthers scientific exploring.Am i missing something other than Americans trying to distract from the fact their President is a paedophile chid rapist.
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nasa, middle class welfare.
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"Is it supposed to take ten days to fly from Florida to California?"
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😂

Freaking Delta! I swear I’m never flying them again!
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welcome home rainbow crew.
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And slowing down was like stomping the brakes on a supercar - for 15 minutes!
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Rather be going the opposite direction.
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Congratulations on your extraordinary adventure.
Held my breath until the safe touchdown.
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👀👀👀
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Wow!
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Oh my that is astounding. 💙✨
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We need to bring back the Concord. It would be even faster with modern updates.
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Great airplane. To costly to fly.
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Amazing zzzzzzzz
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#NASA #CSA
This is how the relationship between our two countries should be.
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Fastest reentry speed by a human crew with an untested heat shield,

We were lucky .
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The joy they brought to me and countless others is priceless…and out of this world. A bright moment in this time of darkness. Thank you team Artemis II. 🌖🌏💫
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@chucklovatt.bsky.social Hi! 🚀 Thanks for following - excited to connect!
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Crazy - impossible to fathom!
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Finally something good to write home bout
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Lovely group shot. Just think, they have proposed a tunnel under the Atlantic that shoots us thru a tube to Europe that fast. Kind of hard to imagine.
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It is pure bullshit, that is why it is hard to imagine.
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I don't see why people are so excited over this. All they did was fly around the moon and then come back. They didn't achieve anything by doing this.
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All the money spent on it. smh
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The real “fast and furious”!😎
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What a beautiful looking group of people - brave and accomplished.
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I was saying that exact thing last night.i had a real hard time understanding how the body adapts to such a fast change in time.im still baffled
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But a tad warmer.
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That would actually be a fantastic commercial flight. Chicago to London would be about 5. Can we make it so?
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I don’t know if I’ll recognize Christina Koch on earth with her hair down 😀
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I think you just started the Christina Koch Halloween costume. A Blue jumpsuit and a brown fright wig!
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Hey Charlie Kirk in hell and a black guy was the pilot of Artemis II lol
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Sure but the airfare is a killer. 😁
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Welcome home! 🤗
Your photos are amazing!
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In the 90's I was taking a flight from LAX back to SF when the pilot announced there would be a delay. The space shuttle was coming back and was over Tokyo so we had to wait 20 min for it to clear our airspace and land at Edwards before we could take off.
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Welcome home!
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Woah
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Even if we could, we’re still not travelling to the US!
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But 10 seconds in and out !

Lmao 😂
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A good decision.
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Lol don't blame you.
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That's like 33,000mph... or Mach 50 in the upper atmosphere... wowza
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That would be awesome.
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How human ears (and other organs) withstand that?!
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This was the coolest thing my entire generation ever witnessed!
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Shit I never even thought about that.
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I don’t even know them and I’m so proud. I hope they get to do the next trip and a moon walk!
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Whoa!
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And they were head first too!
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And down to splashdown in ten minutes
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When I heard they were descending towards Earth at 14,000 ft/sec 🤯🤯🤯
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I was watching the simulation on the NASA feed and the countdown clock was like 1 mile per SECOND, it was crazy!
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Wooosh! 😂
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They actually traversed the entire Pacific Ocean from Malaysia to San Diego in about 5 minutes
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Ughh I can't tell the Americans from the Canadians! How do I know who I like best??
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When I heard them describe the fireball and heat shield on NPR I almost didn’t watch.

Those astronauts are so brave!
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Yes they are. Brave individuals.
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I see their external camera burned off. I was getting tired of that same postcard.
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Nope.
bsky.app/profile/baileyprice.bsky.social/post/3mj6kilr2ms2e
They left it.
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Blimey
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That's a rush that's gonna be hard to beat.
Welcome back Space Cowboys!
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I think it's cool that the astronauts themselves worked out problems with the craft's re-entry, discovered in the testing phase.
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Agreed. NASA tests the crap out of everything and everyone. Must be reassuring when you’re traveling 25k mph towards the Pacific Ocean.
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mach 39 🫪
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I guess we can have nice things on occasion.
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Iron humans
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They are going so fast with the first set of parachutes, and they waited so long I was definitely getting worried
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This thread is rad thanks for the science Brett!
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😳
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Do Americans know where London is? 😂
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I have this weird little fantasy thing I’ve done forever: bringing Ben Franklin to present day & showing him amazing things. Planes landing at my nearby airport gets me pointing up & saying “Ben! Look at that! It’s going about 170mph as it’s approaching landing!” I can’t wait to tell Ben about this.
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He would definitely dig it.
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He was a fan of good beer. He'd be pumped. Don't tell him about anything else going on here. I mean it's not like he didn't warn us.
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That’s a good analogy, but it makes me want to throw up.
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Amazing
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Just watch, trump will ask them why a crater wasn’t named after him
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Shhhhhhhhhh!!!
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Yep. Probably his first question.
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Tell him we are working on something in the Alpha Centauri that is much more better?
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Geez!! That would be terrifying. What a cool experience for them. ❤️
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Yeah one minute they were over Australia, and then they were splashing down. It was crazy.
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🤯 Zoom 💨
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At least a form of transport that allowed you to travel that fast between London and LA would be a worthwhile investment, unlike this vanity project.
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No kidding. And what's worse is people are actually happy that all this money got wasted just for 4 people to fly around the moon then come back without achieving anything
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Wonder if this is why I had a whole series of dreams where I launched to the moon and back recently. Re-entry was always a mfer. Like the ultimate falling dream lol
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Thanks to your president, most people would not want to go to your country, or Los Angeles, at all, let alone in 10 minutes
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I missed the whole thing because of World War 3 …..
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That's a lot of Gs...
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Wow! That's fast!!
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My heart was in my throat throughout the lift off and the splash down, like a worried mom of teenagers. And like that, my worry was for naught, as I should have known. But still - HUGE sigh of relief as the last of them departed the capsule. THANK YOU, NASA for bringing us along for the ride!
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Pretty damn fast😎
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I was counting how fast would I fly from Seattle to Amsterdam. It usually takes 9 hours. Their speed was just amazing. Would be nice to go that fast but at the same time it might be a bit uncomfortable. 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Remember the old days when you couldn’t be an astronaut unless you had perfect eyesight?

#glasses
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❤️
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“Whooooa NELLIE!”
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Heroes all!

I hope that they're the beginning of a new chapter in humanity where we reach out to space and to each other. An era of shared exploration of the solar system, an end to division amongst ourselves, and the removal of greed and hate as the driving force behind our accomplishments.
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We were told that most the coast of San Diego would hear a “Sonic boom”

Sadly I didn’t hear it!! Was near imperial beach hoping to hear it, then the radio said it’d already landed.
Glad everyone is home safe!!
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My nephew lives in San Diego and I asked him if he could hear it and he was out on his balcony and he didn’t hear it either.
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😫
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I was like “Slow down”. Not an aerospace engineer but a concerned citizen.
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Same.
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I wonder if their ears were popping.
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Yes, astronauts frequently experience their ears popping when returning from space as their bodies re-adapt to Earth's atmospheric pressure and gravity.
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Love the crew, love the mascot designed by an 8 yr old boy of asian heritage.
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And then they had the mascot with them during every interview, that was totally cool.
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Wow!
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And they set down within 1 mile of target and less than 1 minute of projected time. Amazing!
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Wow...10 Minutes According To My Brothers Is Time To Smoke More Marijuana
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….generating heat half the temperature of the sun.
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Wow! That’s a great comparison!
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Yes. 24000 mph.
It's called orbital speed.
All reentry craft start at that speed during reentry.

Just ask SpaceX.
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Thanks, but why would I ask SpaceX? Have they gone to the Moon?
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Why ask Space X?
NASA have been at this for decades.
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Awesome example
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TY.
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😱⭐⭐⭐💖
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Some day that will be slow.
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Neptune and back in six minutes
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I wondered if the crew heard the capsule sizzle when it splashed down?
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You need to express this in standard US units: football fields per lunar month or something like that
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Wouldn’t that be nice . . .
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Yeah, but the tickets are kind of pricey
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Yes please
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Hence no drink service
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Wow!
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No one in their right mind would make that journey…
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White people crushed at the back of every photo of the crew.
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Amazing
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I’d imagine it was a bit hairy when free falling back in Earth’s atmosphere and waiting for the chutes to deploy.
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Bricks were shit. LOL
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Faster than a republican running from the #trumpepstein files
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I'm waiting for president bobblehead to take credit and invite them to the WH so they too can enjoy the delicacy of cold McDonald's hamburgers and allow a brainless pedophile to ruin this moment and make idiots out of them
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And is interestingly the same speed most people want to achieve when leaving the USA at the moment.
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Amazing!
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😳
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That's interesting comparison.
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It's about the same speed that someone in my social group four decades ago disappeared into the gents' toilet when it was his round, on occasions...
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and then splashdown was at NINETEEN miles per hour
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IKR.

What was really crazy is that they went from 25,000 mph until they hit the atmosphere and slowed down to less than 500 miles an hour because of the friction. BANANAS! 😂
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I hope they bought that cute mascot home with them.
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I was worried about the heat shield. 🌊❤️❤️🙏
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SAME!
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I thought Elon’s ‘hypertube’ invention was going to accomplish the same kind of speed … until the tubes started cracking and the bolts started rusting at his test tube in California, the one now abandoned.
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He’s likely seething right now and I love that for him.
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and ya got to see how its done live
amazing
freaky and amazing
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AND THEY ALL GOT UP AND LITERALLY WALKED AWAY FROM IT
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It makes sense for them specifically too since they didn't have to live in micro gravity for months!

They legit got a better deal that the non- astronauts that went to the iss last year 😭
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I know! Astronauts are an amazing breed! Smiling and grinding knowing they could zoom through the atmosphere and burn up at any second?!?
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So they could taste their nose with their gut? 👃🤢
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Wow
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And it was the same velocity that every Apollo command module was traveling during re-entry, including the Apollo 8 command module that was the first to orbit the Moon (ten times) on December 24, 1968, over 57 years ago.
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When they were talking about how fast they were going to be travelling today, I could barely wrap my head around it. Even when they hit the ocean they were going 20 mph!! That’s a pretty major slam in that tiny capsule!
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The only thing faster is our rising debt. Can we afford the Artemis II?

What changes when voters confront the numbers instead of the narrative?

This brief fiscal literacy test gets at a deeper question: how different would our politics look if citizens actually understood the tax system?
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Well, you'll get your wish. Trump plans to cut NASA's budget %23

But Trump's Pentagon Budget for 2027 is $1.5 Trillion, a %40 increase. ($445 Billion)

We'll have a $40 trillion debt by that time. The Debt was $36.1 trillion when he took office.
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Of my
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So, no beverage service then? So glad they returned safely! An amazing mission on so many levels! ❤️🌑🌒🌖🌗🇺🇸🇨🇦❤️
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Only Nutella. LOL
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That’s amazing
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32,700 miles per hour
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If I lived in London I'd decline.

If I lived in LA I'd be first in line. 🤪
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Wow! That’s almost as fast as Trump’s cognitive decline.
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Or it *was* traveling from India to San Diego, CA in 10 to 15 minutes 🤷🏼‍♂️

We could just say what it actually was.
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but they would have to stop before they reached Reading
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Mach 32! How can their bodies sustain that? 😱
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This is all I could think about while watching
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They said they were experiencing 4 G’s upon re-entry.
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It can't; it didn't happen. IMO.
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...around the world in 60 minutes.
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That’s crazy to consider
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Without fossil fuels
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Free Fall.
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That's crazy fast.
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They slowed down almost as fast as the cars going down I-5 past San Onofre once they hit Oceanside...
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$4bn gets you from London to LA in 10 minutes.

Or a mile of high-speed rail network in California.

Anyone wondering whether the US has got its priorities somewhat, I don't know, fucked the hell up?
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There’d be money for both if we taxed the rich … and still have money left over for universal childcare, universal healthcare, socialized higher education, pay off all current student debt, actually reinvest in infrastructure and add more public transit options.
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With or without a layover?
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TSA Pre Check!
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It was amazing to watch- at one point I was like oh no I can’t watch this, they were going so fast it seemed impossible they’d slow down enough for splashdown. Truly incredible accomplishment for our space program.
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And so hot!
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Agreed.
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I love Ross Martin.
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And it happened. They are safe at Earth!
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Not even time for drink service!
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I could squeeze one in.
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Ha! IKR
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And the heat shielding worked marvels!!! So happy to hear about any of the new science-y stuff being tested!!!

Oh and also Moonjoy is probably the Best word out of the ones anyone has come up with since trump became the president lmao
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That would help with my commute.
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Except nobody would want to go anywhere in the US at the moment
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Yep. The World Cup is going to be a shit show.
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Down to 19 mph in seconds. Amazing.
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Glad we will pay for a few people to have fun while millions die from lack of medical care because "we can't afford that."
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deficit spending means we can afford everything all the time. Spend Spend Spend
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NASA is run by a Trump appointee, right? Is this the most expensive Epstein distraction yet?
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I'd rather have healthcare coverage.
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Hi from Canada 🇨🇦, we have both: Medicare and a Space programme.
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With Trump you'll get neither because he's cutting NASA's budget by %25 next year. No Worries.

Vote Democratic in 2026!
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🤯🤯🤯
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Why can't someone commercialize this?
Asking for a traveling friend.
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Can one ever put a price on camaraderie?
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They were falling so fast, I was yelling “open the parachutes!!”
Incredible achievement.
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IKR! I figured that the chutes had an altimeter so they knew when to deploy but I was so the same! OPEN! OPEN! OPEN!
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Still going with the late 60s landing though
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On February 6, 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard hit two golf balls on the Moon using a makeshift 6-iron attached to a sample tool.

Top That!

#NASA
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Interesting, problem is, everybody is boycotting USA travel while the Ornage Hitler is in charge

Don't get it straightened out soon, USA won't be worth visiting ever
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It was wonderful!
So happy they are home safe and sound🪽
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😱
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@renbear67.bsky.social
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That's awesome, and so unfortunately true.
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😲
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I love that DEI was a contributing factor in the success of this fascinating mission.
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I'm all about space exploration with purpose. Not exploitation for profit. I can see the GOP claiming the importance of going farther.
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