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The shuttle hit the atmosphere at 30x the speed of sound

Re-entry was where the Space Shuttle truly faced its greatest challenge. Traveling at nearly 8 kilometers per second, the ...
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Today is splashdown day for Artemis 2 moon astronauts — What to expect at each stage of reentry & landing (timeline)

"It's 13 minutes of things that have to go right," NASA said of the reentry and splashdown, the first with astronauts from ...

Columbia shuttle astronaut shared a moving take on humanity shortly before reentry tragedy

David M. Brown, a Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut, sent a moving email shortly before the shuttle’s reentry tragedy. His ...