Orion EFT-1 Splashdown - Video Transcription
Rob Navias, NASA JSC Mission Control Commentator:
That view of Orion from the Ikhana.
25,000 feet.
Time to splashdown less than four minutes.
Forward bay cover has been deployed.
Drogues have been deployed.
Great video from the Ikhana.
15,000 until splashdown.
Coming up on main chute deploy.
From a way point over the Pacific Ocean there is your new spacecraft America.
Drogues away.
Main chute deploy.
On mains.
Everything looking good.
Good reefing reported.
4,000 feet.
Three good main chutes reported from the USS Anchorage.
That's confirmed here in mission control.
From a high-speed rate of 20,000 miles an
hour to a gentle return back to Earth.
More than 4 hours and 20 minutes after it took off
on a Delta IV Heavy rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
3200 feet now until splashdown.
2200 feet now.
Winds at the surface just about 12 knots.
Wave heights no more than about four-and-a-
half feet or so.
Perfect conditions for Orion's homecoming.
This view from Orion itself of the chutes helping it to descend gently towards its
splashdown in the Pacific.
One thousand feet.
Just a few hundred feet until splashdown.
One hundred feet.
We have splashdown.
Splashdown confirmed at 10:29 a.m. central time.
Orion is back on Earth.
America has driven a golden spike as it crosses a bridge into
the future.