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by P-Nuts 73 days ago
The heat shield on Artemis I didn’t fail in the sense that were there a crew they would have died
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It failed testing. What you’re describing is the exact same thinking that destroyed Challenger. The O-rings are leaking, they’re not supposed to do that at all, but they’re not leaking enough to cause a failure....
Is there any word on how the Artemis II heat shield fared, after the tweak to the reentry profile?