Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Apr 11 This crew capsule was white an hour ago 🔥
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This means they have a moon pope right
Re-entry do be like that
How hot it was??
Did not realize that 😮
Insurance company is not going to be happy. They put 1.1 million kms on their vehicle in a week and a half and it suffered a lot of aesthetic damage. Premiums will go through the roof.
Thank you for explaining that! I didn't understand why it looked so differently from how it looked when it left.
It'll pressure wash off
Now Stephen Miller is going to deport it.
5000F to the temperature of ocean water. That's some metallurgy for the capsule to keep its shape and integrity (maybe bit of pun intended)
Crispy!
I hope people get to see it at The Smithsonian someday! Even if it does look a little worse for the wear, it did it's job! Integrity deserves accolades and a nice rest.
That'll just buff right out.
And shed it's outer covering before re-entry
The European Service module was white. The Orion capsule has always been darker colored.
They're not getting the deposit back
I assume that's charring from the re-entry, right?
still remember my friend showing me around the museum in Chantilly and being blown away (/positive) by how grimy discovery was lol
Reentry through earth’s atmosphere will do that. 🔥
I'm having flashbacks to when I was a kid seeing the luner landings return to Earth.
That was scary as heck. Tight window for parachutes. 🪂
those re-entries are always scary, but especially since Columbia.
Because of woke probably
Anyone else getting shiny Bonsly vibes? 🤩
Toasted!
"Can I interest you in our Diamondbrite plan?"
Just take it through the car wash. Or the crew capsule wash, really, maybe let it cool down a bit beforehand. 🤣
It was wild when they switched to an IR camera and the capsule was just a blinding point of light overloading the sensor
I’ve got an unlimited pass for Mister Car Wash, if they bring it over to my house we can use it to clean the thing up.
"It's going to get hot on re-entry. What should we do?" Plunge it into the biggest bowl of water we have.
Just got lightly toasted, had to make sure it was properly cooked for flavor.
k I'm grinding my teeth now.. is that the norm? like I hope so..
The Alt text is perfect ☺️👍
y’know what they say… once you go through the atmosphere, your brightness goes down a tier. ok i tried 😅
Barreling down through the atmosphere in a Hershey’s kiss will do that I guess.
*Tries to write “WASH ME” in the soot, shrieks in pain*
Like my old sgt would say. Steel wool and some upper body strength. Fix that right up.
Dirty atmosphere. 😜
They're back! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPkj...
Racist
The best scientists and engineers in all of science & engineering and they forget the GD sunscreen.
I was just wondering what happened!!!!
Blew my mind!
5000°!!! 😳
Well it was maybe silver-y but now it is definitely well charred. (This is normal, just a consequence of going through the atmosphere)
does that mean they elected a new mission commander
white?
That capsule looks and feels like the rest of us at the end of this very long week...
I wondered. I was thinking it grew barnacles pretty quick
toasted
I was thinking the same thing