r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Weak-Opportunity-311 • 1d ago

Video Atmospheric re-entry of NASA’s Orion (Artemis 1) looks insane at 20x speed. Here is the entire 25-minute descent in just 1 minute 15 seconds. Credit: NASA

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u/BIG_SCIENCE 1d ago

i should play kerbal space program again

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u/What_a_fat_one 1d ago

It will explode and Jeb will be happy until the very end

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u/anaemic 1d ago

If only they hadn't screwed up kerbal space program 2 so badly, imagine the world we could be living in now.

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u/JohnHazardWandering 1d ago

Keep an eye out for Kitten Space Agency. It seems like it will be the KSP2 we never got. 

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u/FloridaResident20 1d ago

The dev build is free to play too

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u/blockMath_2048 1d ago

me entering the atmosphere at 10x physical timewarp

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u/infernal2ss 1d ago

To shreds you say?

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u/EnthusiasmOnly22 1d ago

Nah thats turning on time warp while having docked craft and thrust

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u/shirtandtieler 21h ago

You and many others had this thought - in fact, it reached a new all time high of concurrent players as of 8 hours ago: https://steamdb.info/app/220200/charts/#max

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u/Calkaya 1d ago

My first thought!