LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — A Lynchburg retired astronaut is reflecting on his time in space and the depth of what it takes to fly past Earth.
As Artemis II prepares to land at 25,000 miles per hour, Leland Melvin, a retired astronaut, mentioned astronauts rely on years of training to remain centered in excessive circumstances which will appear intense to us however are routine for them.
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“5,000 degrees and 25,000 miles per hour seems chaotic,” Melvin said. “But in the capsule you’re doing your job, and you’ve been trained to do that job from, you know, and I spent 10 years training to get ready to fly.”
Melvin added that astronauts spend a big a part of their training working via extremely superior simulators that permit them to expertise reasonable mission circumstances in a very protected surroundings.
