NASA Shares What You’ll See & Hear In Its Moon Ship At 24,500 Miles Per Hour

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A year after its Artemis 1 mission flew and returned from the Moon, NASA has shared new footage of how it feels to sit inside the Orion spacecraft while it returns to Earth. NASA's Artemis program will use Orion to transport astronauts from Earth to a near-moon orbit and then return them to the planet once the mission ends. It travels at a whopping 25,000 miles per hour and can touch temperatures as hot as 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit during the return journey. This experience - auditory and visual - has been captured by cameras on the spacecraft.

With less than a year remaining before the planned liftoff of Artemis 2, NASA's crew for the mission has already started to prepare for their historic journey. The Artemis program is planned in staggered stages, with each mission increasing the milestones that NASA has to achieve. For instance, while Artemis 1 saw an uncrewed Orion fly around the Moon before returning to Earth, Artemis 2 saw the crew fly around the Moon in a different orbit and then splash down on Earth.

Just like NASA did with SpaceX's Crew Dragon, it also tested the Orion spacecraft for carrying crew after the maiden Artemis 1 flight. Now, the crew is preparing for its journey around the Moon, and astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen spent December rehearsing for a post-splashdown emergency escape.

Astronauts also train inside simulators for spaceflight, just like pilots. SpaceX's simulators are quite famous for accurately reproducing the sound and feel of a Crew Dragon during its journey to and from space. NASA has been busy recording what