Got the live YT feed up. They’ll splash down a few minutes prior to 7pm CST. They are 10k miles from the Earth currently and the view is outstanding.

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Got the live YT feed up. They’ll splash down a few minutes prior to 7pm CST. They are 10k miles from the Earth currently and the view is outstanding.

My daughter has class til 615, planning on getting it on once we're home

nasa live feed if you're so inclined.

For the Michiganders:

U.S. Navy corpsman from Alpena waiting to greet Artemis II crew

ALPENA, Mich. (WJRT) - A Mid-Michigan native will be among the first people to greet NASA's Artemis II crew when they return to Earth from their historic mission around the moon.

Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Steve Kapala of Alpena is part of a four-member U.S. Navy dive medical team tasked with opening the Orion capsule after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.

The team will conduct initial medical assessments and help the astronauts exit the capsule safely.

Kapala and his teammates -- Lt. Cmdr. Jesse Wang, Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Laddy Aldridge and Chief Hospital Corpsman Vlad Link -- have trained for years to serve as first-contact medical providers for astronauts Christina Koch, Jeremy Hansen, Reid Wiseman, and Victor Glover.

Each team member will provide one-on-one assistance to a specific crew member.

Navy dive medical personnel are certified divers with specialized training in decompression illnesses and undersea medical considerations. They typically work in expeditionary warfare communities, ensuring dive-qualified service members are safe to conduct diving operations.

After the capsule splashes down, the medical team will enter to conduct initial exams, provide triage care if needed and assist the astronauts onto an inflatable raft set up by Navy divers.

The crew will then be airlifted by helicopter to the USS John P. Murtha for follow-up evaluations.

Kapala, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11, has practiced dive medicine since 2018.

"I grew up reading sci-fi novels and watching space movies, never thinking that I would play a part in a recovery mission like this," Kapala said. "It is surreal to play a part in safely recovering the astronauts from the capsule to get them home safe to their families, an effort that really makes you realize this team is bigger than just the four of us."

The Artemis II mission marks the first time humans have journeyed to deep space around the moon in more than 50 years.

7 minutes to service module separation.

Hm, I must be watching this delayed? They just said 7 minutes.

I'm on the main stream which has been running since liftoff.
They just just under 5 min to separation

"I guess we’ll have to go back” Jacki Mahaffey, CAPCOM, Mission Control Artemis II landing

Blackout in 4 minutes. +6 minutes to know they’re safe after that. LFG!

Tense!

So they're just gonna pop chutes while going around 23,700+mph the slow down to 19 mph. What's the G-force of that?

Going about 12,000 now. Slowing down.

Yep, guessing a miscalc on my part, but still at that speed, I wonder the g-loads

Down & stable

Textbook splashdown!

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Yep, guessing a miscalc on my part, but still at that speed, I wonder the g-loads

Drogues come out about 350MPH, not a lot of G-load and take some time to slow to main chute deployment, so it is relatively minor G load compared to Top Fuel Dragsters deploying full drag chutes at similar speed and that's a jolt at 5-6 Gs. (Negative G load to the driver, resulting 12 G total swing from launch to chutes in less than 4 seconds)

Picture perfect up to splash down. What a goat fuck.
Tow the capsule into the well deck, drain it and call it a day. 6 boats full of people doing nothing.

This announcer guy needs to stop using the word "erection". You could just about make a drinking game out of it! What's wrong with "build" or "attach"? I'm sitting in a room full of teenagers and preteens watching this, and every time he says it there's uncontrollable snickering, lol.

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What a goat fuck.

Good in theory. I think they need to go back to drawing board to fine tune this recovery.

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What a goat fuck. Tow the capsule into the well deck, drain it and call it a day. 6 boats full of people doing nothing.

You got that right. Lots in khaki pants on those boats just gawking around. Why does the LPD have to stay 3-4 miles away? You'd think it would be safer to tow it a short distance to the ship than deal with helicopter pickups from a rocking raft. I'd swear it's all just NASA-induced drama?

Geez...just put them on a zodiac and head to the ship.