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Artemis-2 Heat Shield Arrival
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The heat shield for Orion’s Artemis 2 mission, NASA’s first crewed mission, arrives in its shipping container aboard NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center Shuttle Landing Facility in Florida on July 9, 2019. The heat shield, measuring roughly 16 feet in diameter, will protect astronauts upon re-entry on the second mission of Artemis. The heat shield arrived from Lockheed Martin’s manufacturing facility near Denver.
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Credit lineArtemis-2 Heat Shield Arrival. NASA/KSC, 2019-07-10. Public domain. ID: KSC-20190710-PH_GEB01_0022.