Artemis II astronauts bet their lives on NASA’s maths being right tonight: Crew will face a 24,000mph re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere – with just a 3-INCH shield to protect them from the 2,760°C heat

NASA‘s Artemis II astronauts will bet their lives on NASA’s maths being right tonight, as they reach the most dangerous part of their mission. 

In the early hours of Saturday morning, the Orion module will make its final approach to Earth to mark the finale of its mammoth 685,000–mile (1.1 million km) journey.

At around 12:33am BST, when the astronauts are just 76 miles (122km) of home, the service module which powers their spacecraft will detach

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