Is it easier to touch down on the moon for a sixth time or to enter Earth's atmosphere with a new, never-tried approach?
flight director, said during a press conference on Thursday ."I would say that the first time you do anything is harder than a repeat, but that doesn't account for new changes or objectives or harder objectives that occur on later flights."
Graph showing the extent that the Orion spacecraft's range can be extended with a skip entry, compared to the range that Apollo was able to fly with a direct entry. "The 'skip reentry' has a lower profile than a direct or ballistic reentry in the amount of deceleration that you put not only on the spacecraft, but on the passengers, the astronauts riding on board," Sarafin said.
"Another important aspect of the skip entry is, it allows us to target a single landing site," said Judd Frieling, entry flight director for the Artemis 1 mission."By varying what we call the azimuth — the direction at which the crew module flies back to the target — we are always able to narrow our operations to that landing zone.", where the U.S.
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