Inside Artemis’ perilous 16-minute plunge back to Earth where astronauts face 2,760C heat with just a 3inch shield

THEY have almost made it to the moon and back, but now the crew on board Artemis II face their greatest moment of jeopardy. Travelling at a barely comprehensible 25,000mph — seven miles a second — their 15ft-by-9ft Orion capsule will catapult back into the Earth’s atmosphere in the early hours of Saturday. Transforming the...