In late 2024, the Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocean. For astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen, this event will mark the conclusion of a ten-day odyssey to the Moon and back. Many spectators will assume that the mission is over when the spacecraft impacts the surface of the ocean. However, a successful splashdown will only be the beginning of a complex recovery operation. According to tradition, the flight control team in Houston will not celebrate until Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen safely exit their spacecraft. History demonstrates that this task is anything but simple. This week, NASA began a series of exercises which will teach the crew and their recovery team how to master the final stage of the Artemis 2 mission. By coincidence, this milestone occurred on the eve of the anniversary of Gus Grissom’s Mercury-Redstone 4 mission. The lessons learned from Grissom’s narrow escape from his sinking spacecraft continue to positively influence the training process for the first Artemis crew.
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