Dec 212014
 

A camera mounted in the “nose” of the Orion capsule. On the way up, it would look forward, but on the way down, as here, it looks back. And here it sees the limb of the Earth, the plasma tail during re-entry and the chutes.

Now, what I want to see is a joint mission, with two such capsule re-entering next to each other, maybe a few hundred yards apart. Get a view of this from the side, and you’d really have something.

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 Posted by at 12:14 am