Dec. 11 Artemis I Orion Will Attempt First Skip Entry for a Human Spacecraft

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Dec. 11 Artemis I Orion Will Attempt First Skip Entry for a Human Spacecraft

Orion is facing the biggest test ever — a nailbiting, ‘will it work’ skip-entry return to Earth. The male mind is not the engine behind this scientific strategy. Mother Nature shows the way

In fact, the stone-skipping return is one of the most important examples to date of biomimicry or ‘science inspired by nature’. In the AOC link, is a fantastic TED Talk by Janine Benyus, founder of the biomimicry movement.

Orion will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere at a speed of 24,500 mph and then bounce off the Earth’s upper atmosphere like a stone skipping across water. This re-entry plan has several key benefits, including bleeding off speed and reducing the G-Force that Artemis astronauts in the future will experience.

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TED Talk Favorite: Janine Benyus' 3.8 Billion Years of Nature-Inspired Design

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TED Talk Favorite: Janine Benyus' 3.8 Billion Years of Nature-Inspired Design

Janine Benyus and the Biomimicry movement are gaining enormous respect in the world of product innovation and design. The biometric path is simple and described in four steps: quieting human cleverness; listening to life’s genius; echoing what we learn; and giving thanks.

Partnering with Nature is an eyebrow-raising metaphor for super-rational human minds coming to grips with understanding that human brilliance in innovation and scientific discovery may also kill planet Earth.

Men [and fewer women] should be partnering with Nature, not dominating her.

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Artemis 1 Lifts Off To the Moon | MAGA Will Not Stop Us

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Artemis 1 Lifts Off To the Moon | MAGA Will Not Stop Us

NASA's technological marvel, next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida early on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 on its debut flight.

No matter what you hear or read — no matter how many fake conspiracies make their way onto Twitter today — the 32-story Space Launch System (SLS) rocket surged off the launch pad from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral at 1:47 a.m. EST (0647 GMT).

Its Orion capsule is now traveling on a three-week test journey around the moon and back T Earth on Dec. 11, 2022.

Just a week after patriotic Americans reclaimed democracy at our 2022 midterm elections, Artemis 1 gives us another reason to be hopeful.

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Artemis 1 Mission Now Eyes Saturday Two-Hour Window Opening 2:17 pm ET | Bad Florida Weather Looms

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Artemis 1 Mission Now Eyes Saturday Two-Hour Window Opening 2:17 pm ET | Bad Florida Weather Looms

NASA space agency will try again to launch its Artemis 1 mission moon rocket— the most powerful ever — on Saturday pm September 3. Complications continue.

Looming weather and hydrogen-loading issues cancelled Monday’s Artemis 1 launch.

Will the new heat shield withstand a searing 5,000 degrees?

"We are stressing Orion beyond what it was actually designed for, in preparation for sending it to the moon with a crew," said Cabana, last week. "And we want to make sure that it works absolutely perfectly when we do that."

Orion is the space capsule traveling on a 32-story rocket, and NASA intends to push it beyond every possible limit. With this mindset driving the mission, the team will take chances not possible with humans on board. One assumes that the dummy data will tell scientists if they lived or died.

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