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I enjoyed watching and listening to the Re entry stage where Orion would perform a shallow dive into the upper atmosphere and back out again into space to shed huge amounts of energy and velocity ( similar to the Apollo CM re entry ) but perform it twice at a tighter angle.
This Orion double skip and plunge manoeuvre was probably physically possible during Apollo but way too risky as technology at the time could not simulate a safe outcome.
With today’s technology Orion performed this manoeuvre safely and flawlessly and instead of subjecting future crews to Apollo’s punishing 6 to 8G’s the Orion crews will max out at just under 4G’s
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