Travelling at 39 times the speed of sound, the Orion spacecraft carrying NASA's Artemis II crew became what mission commander Reid Wiseman called "a literal plasma ball" on reentry, flames visible through every window, the hull hot to the touch during the crew appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian to fly to the Moon, stayed in the compact Orion capsule for ten days on NASA Artemis II spacecraft before landing back on Earth........

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